An owl has very sensitive vision. This brain lobe is larger in the owl compared to the "average" vertebrate.
What is the optic lobe?
100
Another name for a primary consumer.
What is an herbivore?
100
The type of allele that will determine the phenotype even if just one of these allele is present in the genotype.
What is a dominant allele?
100
The animal that Mrs. Adams said she is afraid of.
What are snakes?
200
You see a blood vessel from a creature. You have no idea what creature and you have no idea where it came from. You do notice, however, that this type of blood vessel wall is very thin.
What is a capillary?
200
A poison that attacks the nervous system (and can cause blindness or suffocation).
What is a neurotoxin?
200
The act of two separate organisms living together in a mutually beneficial relationship.
What is mutualism?
200
A protein that triggers the productions of an antibody in the blood.
What is an antigen?
200
Mrs. Adams' favorite candy.
What is Hershey chocolate?
300
The thickest of the four ventricles of the heart.
What is the left ventricle?
300
The lobes of the brain that receive signals from the receptors in the nose.
What are olfactory lobes?
300
An ecosystem where all of the water runoff drains into a single body of water.
What is a watershed?
300
The chart used to predict the likelihood that an offspring will have a given genotype and phenotype.
What is a Punnett square?
300
Mrs. Adams' favorite organ in the body.
What is the heart?
400
A rigid structure on the outside of certain cells usually plant cells.
What is a cell wall?
400
Arthropods have this on their ventral side, while vertebrates have it on the dorsal side.
What is the nerve cord (or nervous system)?
400
A complex diagram used to provide an accurate description of the feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
The observable expression of an organism's genes.
What is a phenotype?
400
Mrs. Adams' nickname at Christiana Hospital.
What is "Shocking Queen"!
500
A poison that attacks the red blood cells and blood vessels, destroying circulation.
What is a hemotoxin?
500
The only part of the brain that is a single lobe. It controls involuntary actions and refines muscle movement.
What is the cerebellum?
500
Because they are important in this process, organisms in Kingdom Protista are vital to the oxygen cycle.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
500
The best biology teacher out of all of the kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genuses and species on the planet.