Unit 1
This is information gathered using senses.
What is observation?
The basic structural unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
Machine like molecule that can carry out specific functions in a cell.
What is a protein?
A group of potentially interbreeding organisms that have the ability to produce fertile off spring.
What is a species?
Behaviors or activities performed by an organism that increase its fitness.
What is behavioral adaptations?
A set of moral values.
What is ethics?
A process in which energy from sunlight is used to make sugars out of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
A diagram used to show possible genotypes that can result from a cross.
What is a Punnett square?
A method for determining the age of fossils and rocks that depends on the order of strata.
What is relative dating?
An activity or behavior that is acquired by an organism through experience.
What is learned behavior?
The smallest basic unit of a chemical element.
What is an atom?
What is DNA?
A molecule that reflects only certain colors of light and absorbs the rest.
What is pigment?
A new multicellular organism in the early stages of developement.
What is an embryo?
Inherited characteristics that increase an individual's ability to survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?