Ecosystems
An organism that gets its energy from other organisms.
Consumer
Control center of the cell, controls the activities of a cell-like growth and metabolism.
Nucleus
The scientific study of heredity.
Genetics
Distinct group of organisms that can produce offspring.
Species
A diagram that shows the evolutionary relationship of organisms.
Cladogram
An organism that gets its energy from an abiotic source.
Producer
The powerhouse of the cell that provides the energy a cell needs to move, divide, and contract.
Mitochondria
The traits you can see/physical appearance of an organism.
Phenotype.
A process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce; also known as “survival of the fittest.”
Natural Selection
An organism that breaks down organic material like the remains of a dead organism.
Decomposer
Combination of food chains that are interconnected to create a network of feeding relationships
Food Web
Specialized organelles in plants that make plants green.
Chloroplasts
A dominant allele appears or is expressed, while a __________ allele does not appear/is not expressed.
Recessive
Any trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce, such as the giant turtles on the dryer Galapagos Islands that developed longer necks to reach vegetation.
Adaptation
A form of natural selection, such as male peacocks developing extravagant tail feathers.
Sexual Selection
The process by which green plants and some other organisms convert light energy into chemical energy.
Photosynthesis
The membrane-bound sac plays a role in intercellular digestion and the release of cellular waste products.
Vacuole
Inherited combinations of alleles.
Genotype
Natural selection that creates an entirely new species.
Macroevolution
The word for identical alleles.
Homozygous
________ levels help us classify where an organism falls within an ecosystem, and understand how they aid in the flow of energy.
Trophic
Unlike the multi-cell eukaryotic cells that came later, this single-cell organism is the simple and oldest cell.
Prokaryotic
Different forms of a gene that account for variations in inherited characteristics, such as a Tall Plant (T) and a short plant (t).
Alleles
Physical and behavioral changes that make natural selection happen at the genetic level.
Mutations
An organism that feeds on waste products or dead organic material.
Detritivore