Ecology
Which is the most important part of the carbon cycle?
Photosynthesis.
True or False:
Viruses are classified as living organisms
FALSE
I house DNA
Nucleus
Typically, the youngest fossils are found where?
What is the human population of the world?
What is the chicken population of the world?
8 Billion,28 Billion
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
Primary stages start with bare rock (lichens as a pioneer species)
Secondary stages being after a forest fire where a level of soil has already been built up.
Charles Darwin famously wrote regarding Natural Selection based on which type of avian organisms?
Galapagos Finches
I convert glucose into ATP
mitochondria
In Embryology, we compare early lifeforms and their morphology for similarity and differences.
What do we call the first 9 months of a human's life?
A petri dish of nutrient agar is sterilized.
Soon after, a bacteria colony is added. The colony rapidly explodes in population growth. Because there are no limiting factors (other that the size of the dish), what kind of curve is this called?
Exponential (J-shape)
What is the major human impact with Brazil's slash-and-burn agriculture?
Habitat loss
If Darwin's types of birds had multiple different genotypes inherent in one population, what is that called?
Genetic Variation
I store water in plants to maintain balanced pressure.
Vacuole
What makes mammals mammals?
Breast milk / nursing.
Typically body-wide hair follicles.
Warm-blooded.
If a population of grasses is on the bottom of a trophic pyramid, and they produce 5000 kcal of energy, how much will herbivores (primary consumers) receive?
500 kcal
This greenhouse gas represents 427 parts-per-million of atmospheric content.
Carbon Dioxide
When a new species diverges from an existing population (such as on a boat or airplane), what is this called ?
Founder Effect
I'm a tiny folded protein that folds other proteins once I encounter mRNA and tRNA
Ribosome
Humans=0,Gorilla=1,RhesusMonkey=8,Mouse=27,Chicken=45 and Frog=67 differences in amino acids from hemoglobin protein.
Why?
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An ecological population chart which rises to meet a limiting factor, and resembles an "S", is known as what type of chart?
logistic
Where are they located on the Trophic Pyramid, and what are all of the other terms for that level?
Producers, Autotrophs.
What is the "natural mutation frequency" which creates varieties in populations?
Genetic Drift
I can break down weird and wonderful proteins by "digesting" and destroying molecular bonds.
Lysome
Over spring break, Mr Goorsky saw a shark's tooth inside of a cave in Cumberland Caverns, TN. How did it get there?
If there were material cycles in this example, which element was involved?
This is an example of the phosphorus cycle.
True or False:
Human impact is a Density-DEPENDENT limiting factor
FALSE