Unit 1
A testable statement that states what is being tested, a predicted outcome, and a possible explanation.
What is a Hypothesis?
The basic structural unit in all living organisms.
What is a cell?
A part of DNA that affects it's trait.
What is a gene?
A collection of fossils that are placed in chronological order.
What is the fossil record?
Animals usually reduce their body temperature and metabolism during______.
What is hibernation?
Who did not do very well in his ethics course, because it was considered unethical to scare people for scientific research.
Who is Dr. Dolt?
A unicellular eukaryote.
What is an amoeba?
The genetic code found in alleles gives cells instructions for building specific _______.
What is proteins?
The extinction of a large number of species in a relatively short period of time.
What is Mass extinction?
A behavior or activity performed by an organism that increases its fitness.
What is behavioral adaptation?
This graph is similar to a bar graph but does not have spaces in between the bars.
What is a histogram?
This is used to make sugar in plants.
What is carbon dioxide?
A diagram that illustrates the inheritance of a trait through several generations of a family.
What is a pedigree?
A change in the DNA of an organism.
What is a mutation?
The ability for an organism to hide or blend into the environment.
What is camouflage?
A molecule that reflects only certain colors of light and absorbs the rest.
What is a pigment?
He was able to determine the chemical makeup of DNA.
Who was Chargaff?
A diagram used to show possible genotypes that can result from a cross between two parents.
What is a Punnett square?
A characteristic that WAS NOT present in a common ancestor.
What is a derived trait?
A state of equilibrium that provides a stable environment within cells and organisms.
What is homeostasis?
A process in which organisms with a greater fitness tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
Reproduction of offspring from a single parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
The female representation on a pedigree diagram that shows it has the trait.
What is a shaded in circle?
A characteristic that WAS present present in a common ancestor.
What is a primitive trait?
Pesticides, fertilizer, ocean litter, noise and light.
What are different types of pollution?