Taxonomy
The term for the system of classification scientists use to identify organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The scientist who first proposed that species evolve over time.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A cell with both sets of chromosomes.
What is Diploid?
The fancier name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrological cycle?
The organelle responsible for producing ATP in the cells.
What is the mitochondria?
The system of classification by asking a series of yes/no questions about the organisms outward appearance.
What is Dichotomy?
The term for an increase in favorable traits in a population, resulting in a higher concentration of alleles that benefit the species in a certain environment.
What is Natural selection?
The father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The biogeochemical process through which nitrogen is converted into many forms, consecutively passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and back into the atmosphere.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
The cell membrane is made up of this.
What is a phospholipid bilayer?
The term for structures with similar origin but different function
What are homologous structures?
The trait amongst finches which led Darwin to propose the idea that species evolve from a common ancestor.
What is beak shape?
The name of the graphic organizer for a monohybrid cross.
What is a Punnett square?
Nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
The organelle which holds all genetic information.
What is the nucleus?
What is the term for structures that are similar in function but different in origin?
What are analogous structures?
The introduction of alleles (by interbreeding) from one population of a species to another, thereby changing the composition of the gene pool of the receiving population.
What is Gene Flow?
The ratio of genotypes in a heterozygous, monohybrid cross.
The term for the stage in the nitrogen cycle in which plants absorb nitrogen from the soil.
What is assimilation?
The name for the bodes which produce spindle fibers during cell replication.
What are centrioles?
The scientist who made the first universal way of classifying organisms, which is still used today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
What is genetic drift?
The classic Mendelian ratio for a dihybrid cross in which the alleles of two different genes assort independently into gametes.
What is 9:3:3:1?
The process in which bacteria convert ammonia into ammonium.
What is ammonification?
Prokaryotes reproduce using this method.
What is Binary fission?