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Pot Pourri
100
A random change in the genetic code of an organism
What is a Mutation?
100
The process through which organisms best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce, passing on the favorable trait to their offspring
What is Natural Selection?
100
The law that states that mass cannot be created, nor can it be destroyed
What is the "Law of Conservation of Matter"?
100
The maximum number of individuals that the environment can sustain for the long term
What is Carrying Capacity?
100
Animals determined by Dr. Tony Sinclair to be a keystone species in the Serengeti
What are Wildebeest?
100
The variable that is measured or tested in an experiment to compare results
What is the Dependent Variable?
200
An inherited trait that gives an organism an advantage in it's environment
What is an Adaptation?
200
An environmental factor that influences which traits within a population are more advantageous for survival and reproduction
What is Selective Pressure?
200
An organism that produces its own food/energy
What is an Autotroph/Producer?
200
In the graph below, Letter C corresponds to this term
What is population "overshoot"?
200
A measurement of the variety of species in an ecosystem and their relative population sizes
What is Biodiversity?
200
In an experiment, a test or baseline that we compare the results to
What is the Control?
300
Reproduction where there is only one parent and the offspring are typically identical to the parent
What is Asexual Reproduction?
300
Genetic mutations are the main source of this (from the acronym V.I.S.T.A.)
What is Variation?
300
The amount of energy available to be stored by consumers in the next highest trophic level
What is 10%?
300
In the Serengeti, we learned that the wildebeest were kept below their carrying capacity due to this.
What is Rhinderpest?
300
A species that has a very large effect on its environment both directly and indirectly
What is a Keystone Species?
300
The location in a cell where you would find DNA
What is the nucleus?
400
Organisms, such as bacteria, that reproduce by asexual reproduction tend to increase their numbers very quickly. We call this rate of growth __________
What is Exponential?
400
The change in a species over time
What is Evolution?
400
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
What is a Consumer or Heterotroph?
400
A rapid decline in the population or community of organisms as a result of exceeding carrying capacity
What is "die off"?
400
Shifts in an ecosystem that occur when a change in the numbers of one species affects multiple trophic levels
What is a Trophic Cascade?
400
When graphing the results of an experiment, this variable is plotted on the x-axis
What is the Independent Variable?
500
The first antibiotic that bacteria developed a resistance to
What is penicillin?
500
In the example of the rock-pocket mice, natural selection favored this trait or variation in mice living on the lava beds
What is dark colored fur?
500
In the trophic diagram, buffaloes are considered this:
What are Primary Consumers?
500
When a population of organisms is at its carrying capacity, these two things equal each other
What are birth rates and death rates?
500
In one ecosystem we learned about, otters had a big impact on kelp forests by eating this organism and keeping that population low.
What are Sea Urchins?
500
The atom or element that is found in every biological molecule
What is Carbon?