Development
After fertilization, this ball of cells continously divides
What is a blastula?
There are three levels of variation in Natural Selection. Individual, _______, and species.
What is population?
Budding and fragmentation are exmples of this kind of reproduction.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
The stage in the cell cycle where is cell is NOT actively dividing.
What is interphase?
An organisms genotype is expresses as this.
What is a phenotype?
The exchange of genetic material which is NOT REPRODUCTION is called __________.
What is conjugation?
The phase of the cell cycle where the nuclear envelope reforms and the cells begin to physically divide.
What is telophase?
Zoologists use this word interchangably with "migration."
What is gene flow?
This type of egg is shared by classes Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia.
What is the amniotic egg?
What kind of selection favors an intermediate (middle) variation of a trait over extreme variations?
What is Stabilizing Selection?
This form of reproduction, found in Rotifers, producing predominantly diploid eggs which are females. When under stress, they then produce haploid eggs which become males.
What is parthenogenesis?
The allantois in an amniotic egg serves this function.
What is stores waste?
Red pandas of the Eastern Himilayas and raccoons of North America have incredible similarites in their teeth, paws, and tails. This evolution is called ______.
What is Convergent Evolution?
These amniotes retain their eggs inside their body and give birth to the unshelled young.
What is ovoviviparous?