Classification
The action of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.
The smallest living organism on Earth.
What is Cell?
The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
What is Genetics?
The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
What is Evolution?
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
What is Ecology?
Is constructed using contrasting characteristics to divide organisms in the key into smaller groups.
What is Dichotomous Key?
The framework of the body, consisting of bones and other connective tissues, which protects and supports the body and internal organs.
What is the Skeletal System?
A distinguishing quality or characteristic of an organism.
What is Trait?
A change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.
What is adaptation?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environments.
The highest classification.
What is Kingdom?
A system of organs functioning in respiration and consisting especially of the lungs.
What is the Respiratory System?
Having two identical alleles of a gene.
What is Homozygous?
A british nationalist who proposed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Relating to or resulting from living things.
What is Biotic?
What is Scientific Name?
What is Mitochondria?
The set of observable characteristics of an individual.
What is Phenotype?
A term used by paleontologists to refer the total number of fossils discovered.
What is Fossil Record?
Physical rather than biological, not derived from living organisms.
What is Abiotic?
The branch of science concerned with classification.
What is Taxonomy?
The system that circulates blood throughout your body, consisting of your heart, blood vessels, and glands.
what is the Circulatory System?
One of two or more alternate forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
What is allele?
The process where organisms are more adapted and produce more offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
The number of organisms, or crops that a region can support
What is Carrying Capacity?