Cells
What is the smallest unit of life called
Cell
True or False: All bacteria are bad.
False
Name something in an environment that is abiotic?
What are old bones or casts of dead organisms called that help us understand evolution?
Fossils
Groups of DNA that are the instructions responsible for what you look like are called your _______?
(hint: you can not wear these type of them)
Genes
What cell structure do plants have and animals do not have?
Cell Wall or Chloroplasts
Which one of these (bacteria or virus) can be cured/killed?
Bacteria
In an energy pyramid, what does the bottom layer consist of?
Plants
Adaptation
A visible characteristic like brown hair and blue eyes is considered a _______.
Trait
What are the parts of a cell called?
(hint: it is similar to what we call the parts in our body)
Organelles
What do you get to treat/prevent a virus?
Vaccine
What do we call all of the populations of animals in an ecosystem?
Community
What do we call members of the same group that have similar DNA and characteristics?
Species
Dominant - Show always
Recessive - Only show when you have both
What is the outer layer of an animal cell called that protects it and controls what goes in and out?
Cell Membrane
What is a difference between a virus and a bacteria?
Bacteria are living/Viruses are not
Bacteria can be killed/ Viruses can only be prevented
Bacteria can multiply by splitting up
What do you call a chart that shows a bunch of organisms that eat each other?
Food Web
What does it mean when humans selectively breed other animals?
Ex: the choose animals with the best traits to mate together
If (B) represents Brown eyes and (b) represents blue eyes, what color eyes would a person with the alleles (Bb) have?
Brown
They invade cells and use them to make more of themselves.
In this food chain, what would happen if all of the frogs suddenly died?
Grass-->Grasshopper-->Frog-->Snake-->Hawk
Ex: The snakes would lose a food source and their numbers would fall
Ex: The grasshopper population would grow because they wouldn't get eaten by the frogs
What do we call the idea that animals better fit for the environment survive?
Natural Selection / Survival of the fittest
What is a Punnett Square?
It is a chart that determines the possibility of your traits