Body Systems
This body system moves blood and other necessary materials throughout the body.
What is the Circulatory System?
This organelle is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The name of the scientist who first proposed the idea of evolution.
The name for a group of the same species living together.
What is a population?
Both alleles are the SAME.
What is homozygous?
The brain is the main organ for this body system.
What is the Nervous System?
This part of the cell acts as the "skin".
What is the cell membrane?
The ability to adjust to a changing environment.
What is adaptation?
The name for certain colors or patterns on an animal to help it blend in to its environment.
What is camouflage?
The trait that will always mask or cover another trait.
What is the dominant trait?
This body system filters out bad materials and regulates water levels within the body.
What is the Urinary System?
This organelle absorbs sunlight that is needed in the production of energy.
What is chloroplast?
A genetic difference between organisms of the same species.
What is variation?
Rabbits were introduced to Australia many years ago and have since grown exponentially and caused turmoil by displacing many of the other primary consumers. This is the name we'd used for this type of species.
Double Jeopardy: Why do you think the rabbit population grew so much?
What is an invasive species?
Double Jeopardy: because they had no natural predators.
Given the allele combination Dd, this trait will be seen (dominant, recessive, or both).
What is dominant gene?
These two body systems work together by taking in oxygen, moving it to different parts of the body, and release carbon dioxide back into the air.
What are the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems?
This type of reproduction creates offspring identical to the parent.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
Charles Darwin landed on the Galapagos Islands and noticed this creature and this part of its body was varied.
Double Jeopardy: what specific reason did these creatures vary?
What is a bird and their beak?
Double Jeopardy: they varied because their beaks helped them get different foods based on where they lived.
This amount of energy is transferred between each level of a food chain.
What is 10%?
The trait that we can physically see such as hair color, height, etc.
What is phenotype?
The skin is part of this body system.
Must be spelled correctly!
What is the Integumentary System?
The act of systems working together to keep the body in balanced state.
What is homeostasis?
The name of a remnant organ that had a function from a previous ancestor.
Double Jeopardy: name one of these examples in humans.
What is a vestigial structure?
Double Jeopardy: appendix, extra tendons in arms
This type of relationship benefits one party and the other party is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
List 4 different things we see on a pedigree chart and what they represent.
-circles - female
-squares - male
-filled in - affected trait
-not filled in - unaffected trait