Unit 1
Quantitative and qualitative data.
What is Empirical evidence?
A self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes, the carrier of genetic information.
What is DNA?
What is a chromosone?
The naturalist who came up with the theory of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
A set of moral values
What is ethics?
The statement that states all organisms consist cells, which are the unit of life and all life comes from preexisting life.
What is cell theory?
One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
What is an allele?
A diagram that depicts the lines of evolutionary descent of different species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestor.
What is a phylogentic tree?
An interaction between two organisms living closely to one another, typically benefiting both.
What is symbiosis?
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
An organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. It has a double membrane, the inner layer being folded inward to form layers
What is Mitochondria?
a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
What is a gene?
History of life as documented by fossils, the remains or imprints of organisms from earlier geological periods preserved in sedimentary rock.
What is the fossil record?
A behavior that is genetically hardwired in an organism and can be performed in response to a cue without prior expierience.
What is an innate behavior?