Diversity of Living Things
A tool used to classify organisms based on physical characteristics
What is a Dichotomous Key?
Vertebrates are least likely to undergo this type of reproduction.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
In the 18th century he created a system based on physical and structural featured to classify and identify organisms
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
When humans select desirable traits in a population
What is artificial selection
Round muscles that prevent backflow in the stomach.
What is a Spinchter?
Pigment in chloroplasts that absorbs sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
A cell with a nucleus and other cell membrane organelles.
What is a Eukaryotic cell?
Barrier that stops species from being able to breed before conception.
What is a prezygotic barrier?
The chamber in the heart that pumps blood to the lungs.
What is the Right Ventricle?
Undifferentiated constantly dividing plant tissue.
What is a Meristematic Tissue?
Cycle where virus DNA mixes with the host cell becoming part of the DNA so when it multiplies, viral DNA is replicated as well. How a retrovirus works.
What is the Lysogenic Cycle?
A chromosome that is assorted independently of other chromosomes.
What is a Independent Assortment.
The evolution of one species into two
What is Divergent Evolution?
Two locations in the body where gas exchange occurs?
What is the alveoli and the cells
What are the two classes of seeding plants?
What are gymnosperms and angiosperms?
The theory scientists believe explain how mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved into organelles?
What is endosymbiosis
Pattern of inheritance when both alleles fully express themselves
What is codominance
Genetic advantage of one organism over its competitors that causes it to be favoured in survival and reproduction rates over time.
What is a natural selection?
Arteries become constricted, heart has to work harder to pump blood throughout the body.
What is high blood pressure
How do you define a fruit?
What is a mature ovary