Biology
"The powerhouse of the cell"
Mitochondria
Several populations interacting with one another in a particular environment
Community
humans use these to breathe
lungs
Plants need this element to breathe
What is Biochemistry the study of?
The chemistry of life.
An English naturalist that established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection
Charles Darwin
A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other
Symbiosis
The five kingdom classification scheme is
the Monera or Procaryotae, Protista, Fungi, Animalia, and Plantae
The removal of all trees from an area.
Criminals leave these prints at the scene of some crimes
fingerprints
Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms
cladogram
Ecosystems with similar rainfall, temperature, and water depth.
A Biome
Name the four chambers of the heart
the left atrium and right atrium (upper chambers), and the left ventricle and right ventricle (lower chambers)
The most common fish in the great lakes
walleye
This practice examines the presence of toxins, drugs, and poisons in biological samples to determine their role in a crime or death
Toxicology
Process by which a single species or small group of species evolves into several different forms that live in different ways; rapid growth in the diversity of a group of organisms
adaptive radiation (divergent evolution)
What are the 3 stages of biofilm development
1. attachment
2. colonization
3. development
Coat/protein shell surrounding nucleic acid genome
Capsid
The equation for photosynthesis
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
A common molecular biology method used to compare allele repeats at specific loci in DNA between two or more samples.
Short tandem repeat (STR) analysis
A structure that an organism has that is no longer useful to it, but that they have this structure because a common ancestor to that organism found it useful
vestigial structure
This refers to study of fresh water system
Limnology
The average blood pressure for healthy adult
120/80
The name for a kind of species that is difficult (or even impossible) to classify using morphology alone
cryptic
What type of tissue is mesothelium?
simple squamous epithelium