Cells
The organelle where cellular respiration takes place
What are Mitochondria?
Which of the following is NOT recycled in the biosphere? a. water b. nitrogen c. energy d. carbon
What is c. energy?
Inheritable differences within a species caused by random mutations in DNA.
What are variations?
Another name for an autotroph.
What is a producer?
A reactant of photosynthesis that enters the plant through the stomata.
What is carbon dioxide?
A cell that lacks (has no) nucleus or other organelles made from a membrane
What is a prokaryote?
The % of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10% ?
When a species produces more babies than can possibly survive leading to competition for limited resources.
What is overproduction of offspring, struggle for existence, or survival of the fittest?
Where the energy is stored in an ATP molecule.
What are the bonds between the phosphate groups?
A reactant of photosynthesis that enters the plant through the roots.
What is water?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place
What are chloroplasts?
A species introduced into a new ecosystem that out competes native species, possibly causing extinction and decreasing biodiversity.
What are invasive, or non-native, species?
The ability of an organism to survive and REPRODUCE in its environment?
What is fitness?
A type of population growth that occurs when there are unlimited resources. J shaped curve.
What is exponential growth?
The equation for cellular respiration. (in words or symbols is fine)
What is glucose + oxygen --> carbon dioxide + water?
Two organelles that plant cells have that animal cells do not
What are chloroplasts and cell walls?
Organisms, such as bacteria or fungi, that recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
The evolution of bacteria to not die in the presence of antibiotics.
What is antibiotic resistance?
A random change in a DNA sequence.
What is a mutation?
A light absorbing pigment molecule inside of the chloroplast?
What is chlorophyll?
The liquid inside a cell that surrounds the organelles
What is cytoplasm?
The largest number of organisms of a particular species that an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?
At LEAST 3 types of evidence for evolution are
What are the fossil record, comparative embryology, comparative anatomy (homologous and vestigial structures, and comparative biochemistry (DNA and protein comparisons?
Which process takes in carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in the biosphere?
What is photosynthesis?
The process of breaking down food into a more useable form, ATP.
What is cellular respiration?