Physical Structures
Plant structures that allow seeds to disperse by wind.
What is light with "wings"??
A characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment, develop over many generations
Adaptation
Why do animals live in groups?? (2 reasons)
Increases survival and reproduction
How do animals support plant reproduction??
Seed dispersal
Organisms that make their own food
Producers
What process is required for plant survival??
Pollination
When mutations or adaptations of genes gives an organism a better chance for success and survival
Natural Selection
Often referred to as behavioral adaptations that help different species of animals survive, they are inherited and not learned
Instincts
What is it called when scientists inject an organism with beneficial traits of another organism??
Genetic engineering
The conditions that surround an organism
Environment
The act of breathing, plants and animals exchanging gases with their environment
Respiration
A random change in a gene that affects how an organism grows and develops
Mutation
If a population does not adapt or move from harmful changes, the population will decrease until there is no more
Extinction
When scientists make an exact copy of an animals DNA and create it's offspring??
Cloning
A diagram that combines many food chains, uses arrows to show the energy relationships among organisms
What plants are best suited for a hot, dry climate??
Cacti
Received from parents, are "instructions" that determine how a plant or animal grow and develop
Genes
Useful changes in the body parts of animals are called what kind of adaptations?
Structural adaptations
The way organisms act or respond to stimuli
behavior
instructions for making a protein molecule
genes
The process in which plants use energy from the sun and carbon dioxide to make sugar
Photosynthesis
*PROPERTIES OF MATTER* The measure of how fast particles in an object are moving
Temperature
The process of an animal changing form during its life cycle
Metamorphosis
continuing to live or exist is known as what??
survival
the process where pollen moves from one plant to another, so the genes from one plant can combine with the genes from another flower
pollination