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What is the smallest unit of life?
What is a cell?
What type of genetic pairing are the following examples: Tt, Hh, Bb, Zz?
What is heterozygous?
What does biology mean?
The study of life
The structure that regulates materials entering and leaving the cell is the
Cell membrane
The balance maintained in living things to keep them alive
What is homeostasis?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
What breaks down dead material?
Decomposers
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected. (mutualism, parasitism, or commensalism)
What is commensalism?
The study of how organisms interact with one another and their environment.
What is ecology?
What do the arrows represent in a food web?
Transfer of energy
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
What gas enters the leaf of a plant for photosynthesis?
CO2
HH, LL, AA, and TT are all examples of what type of genotypes?
What are homozygous dominant genotypes?
What are two structures plant cells have that animal cells don't?
What is a characteristic that helps an organism survive within their environment?
An adaptation
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
An alteration to the genetic code
What is a mutation?
This scientist is famous for studying organisms in the Galapagos Islands and for his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Any living thing is called an....
Organism
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
What type of fossil shows the evidence of a living thing, but not the actual organism?
What is a trace fossil?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is a trait?
What does sexual reproduction provide to offspring that asexual does not?
Variation
What is the main organ of the cardiovascular system?
The heart
What is it called when something prevents a population from becoming too large?
What is a limiting factor?
Where would the oldest fossils be found?
Bottom layer
What does blood do?
Circulates oxygen and nutrients around the body.
What is the process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients?
What is cellular respiration?
The passing of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
What does digestion mean?
Breaking down food.
Whales have a bone that would attach hips; what type of structure is this?
What is vestigial structure?