Unit 1
What does observation mean?
Information gathered using senses.
The basic structural unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
What does heredity mean?
What is the passing of traits from parent to offspring.
mineral replacements, preserved remains, or traces of organisms that lived in the past.
What is a fossil?
Behaviors or activities performed by an organism that increase its fitness.
What is behavioral adaptations?
What is qualitative observation?
What is information that describes a quality of what is being observed.
The theory that describes cells and how they operate.
What is cell theory?
What are sections of DNA that control a trait.
What are genes?
An occurrence where a species dies out.
What is extinction?
What are innate behaviors?
What is an activity or behavior that occurs naturally in an organism?
What does inference mean?
What is an explanation for an observation?
Blood cells that are round and a bit larger than red blood cells.
What are white blood cells.
What is the meaning of allele?
What is any of several forms of the code for a gene?
A set of layers of sedimentary rock within the earth.
What is strata?
An activity or behavior that is acquired by an organism through experience.
What is learned behaviors?