The Earthworm
Are earthworms flatworms, roundworms, or segmented worms
Segmented worms
The study of life
What is biology?
Different forms of the same gene
What is an allele?
What are atoms?
What eukaryotic cells have that prokaryotic cells don't
What are organelles?
What is one thing that makes earthworms beneficial?
They loosen the soil and increase nutrients
The scientific study of crime
What is criminology?
The genetic composition of an organism
What is a Genotype?
Positively charged ions
What are cations?
Things that are not truly living but seem to be and can be a real bother
What is a virus?
Earthworms have this body part in common with us (rhymes with rest'in)
What is an intestine?
Cardiology
What is the study of the heart?
What alleles show themselves
What is a phenotype?
Complex sugars
What is a carb?
Organisms that live in harsh conditions such as areas with high salt level, temperature, or acidity.
What are extremophiles?
Earthworms have this body part in common with chickens (rhymes with lizard)
What is a gizzard?
Mycology
What is the study of fungi?
A diagram showing family relationships and the inheritance of traits or genetic conditions across generations
What is a pedigree?
What is one of nitrogenous bases that are in DNA? One is adenine
What is guanine, cytosine, and thymine
An organism that causes disease
What is a pathogen?
Do earthworms have a closed or open circulatory system?
Closed
The study of the age of trees and the records in their rings
What is dendrochronology?
When both alleles are the same (both dominant or both recessive), they are this.
What is homozygous?
What is one of the two processes by which the information in DNA is used to build proteins
What are translation and transcription?
Photosynthesis results in this
What is glucose?