Chapters 1-2
What is information people collect?
Data.
What is the smallest fox in the world?
The fennec fox.
Preserved remains of plants and animals are called what?
Fossils.
What is the top of the mushroom called?
The cap.
What is a zoologist?
A scientist that studies animals.
What is a group of cells that work together?
Tissue.
Name the four bases found in DNA nucleotides?
Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine.
Random changes in DNA are called what?
Mutation.
Fungi that can reproduce both ways are called what?
Perfect fungi.
What are hormones?
Small chemicals made by plant tissues that affect how other plant structures grow.
Define the word theory.
A theory is an idea that scientists use to explain the data that they have collected.
Define a dominant trait.
A trait of a specific character that appears in a hybrid organism.
Define a Virus.
A nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat that uses other cells to reproduce.
Define symbiosis.
Is when two organisms work together to live.
Define Mammals.
They are vertebrates that have hair, produce milk, give live birth (except for the echidna and the duck billed platypus), and warm blooded.
What is an organisms ability to keep it's internal process stable?
Homeostasis.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Austrian munk, scientist, educator, and is called the father of genetics.
Why are decomposers important?
They get rid of waste.
Leaves absorb energy from the sun to make what?
Sugar.
Name the three types of symmetry?
Bilateral, radial, and asymmetry.
Sunlight enters the chloroplasts and is absorbed by what green pigment?
Chlorophyll.
What is an inherited trait that helps an animal survive called?
Adaptation.
Normally bacteria reproduces by what process?
Binary fission.
What are the two main groups of seed plants called?
Angiosperms and gymnosperms.
All cnidarians have stinging cells that are called what?
Cnidocytes.