Characteristics of Living Things
Cats mate and produce kittens
What is reproduction?
What is Lipids, Carbs, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place
What is organelle
The process where organisms change over time
Evolution
The taxon group under directly under phylum
What is class
Pupils exposed to light and they become smaller
What is sense and respond to change
The building blocks of carbohydrates
What is monosaccharides
Single celled-organisms that lacks a nucleus
Prokaryote
Organs or structures remaining in an imperfect form are called
What is Vestigial Structures
The science of classifying organisms
What is Taxonomy
The molecule that that provides instructions for making proteins
What is DNA
It's function is energy storage and major component of the cell membrane
What is lipids
The organelle that stores water, nutrients, and salts
What is the vacuole
Group of organisms who look similar and are capable of producing fertile offspring in the natural environment
What is species
The two word naming system created by Carl Linnaeus
What is binomial nomenclature
A change in an organisms environment that affects the organism's activities
Monomers of Nucleic Acids
What is Nucleotides
Separates the contents of the nucleus form the cytoplasm
Nuclear Membrane
Changes in the DNA sequence that affect genetic information
Mutations
The three domains of classification?
The total of all the chemical activities of an organism
What is metabolism
Four things that both Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes will always have
Cell Membrane, Cytoplasm, Ribosomes, and DNA
The theory that speciation occurs during brief periods of rapid genetic change
What is punctuated equilibrium
The evolutionary history of a species
What is phylogeny