HOMEOSTASIS
This hormone is produced in the pancreas and helps to LOWER the blood sugar after you take a meal?
Insulin
The growth of a population when resources are limited is called?
Logistic Growth Model
Body system responsible for coordinating and regulating all other systems and functions?
Nervous system
A group of (similar) organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
Species
What may bring about evolution?
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A change from within an organism, such as hunger and thirst, that causes an organism to respond?
Internal Stimulus
Term that is used to keep a population from growing beyond a certain limit?
Limiting factors
Carries oxygen, nutrients, and wastes throughout the body.
Circulatory system
Differences among a species, such as different bird beaks, are called
Variations
Genetic traits can be passed on to an organism's offspring through its ?
DNA
Maintaining body temperature is an example of which feedback mechanism?
Negative Feedback Mechanism
The limit of how many individuals in a population the food supply can sustain?
Carrying Capacity or K
Most of the digestion of the food takes place in which part of the digestive system?
Small intestines
A characteristic that can be passed from parent to offspring through genes is called?
Trait
Examples:
Mutations are important because they bring about.....
Genetic variation needed for populations to evolve.
Emptying your bladder of urine when it is full is an example of which feedback loop?
Negative Feedback Mechanism
How will a population change if the birth rate + immigration is higher than tha death rate + emigration?
Increases
Order starting from simplest to most complex: ORGAN, CELL, ORGAN SYSTEM, TISSUE, ORGANISM
CELL, TISSUE, ORGAN, ORGAN-SYSTEM, ORGANISM
English naturalist who formulated a Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (1809-1882)?
Charles Darwin
Genetic engineering
Your body responds to low blood sugar by producing GLUCAGON to release more glucose in the bloodstream. This is an example of...?
Again! the same thing NFL!!
Exponential growth of a population is referred to as by this letter?
J
Hormones such, as adrenaline, insulin, growth hormone, etc may be categorized under which body system?
Endocrine system
The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources?
Competition
What describes best how a species changes over time?
Members that are best adapted to survive produce offspring with similar characteristics while the......