Characteristics of living things
All organisms are made up of these
What are cells?
The animal that Charles Darwin observed for his study of evolution on the Galápagos Islands.
What are finches?
All fossils found over time have helped to create this.
What is the fossil record?
This green pigment captures energy from the sunlight for a plant.
What is Chlorophyll?
Multicellular plant-like protists.
What is algae?
The maintenance of a stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
The practice of humans selecting certain organisms for breeding.
What is artificial selection?
The study of development.
What is embryology?
This type of reproduction is more common among members of the Invertebrate family.
What is asexual reproduction?
Both archaea can reproduce by this form of asexual reproduction.
What is binary fission?
The process by which one parent makes an identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
Changes in genetic material are called these
What are mutations?
The current method that is used to divide Earth's life span into different sections is know as this.
What is the geologic time scale?
A group of lions is called this term.
What is a pride?
This is a partnership between a fungus and a plant's roots.
What is mycorrhiza
Causes an organism to respond in some way.
What is a stimulus?
If an environment happens to change in an area this factor in an organism may help it to survive the change and continue to reproduce.
What is genetic variation?
The second smallest era in Earth's history
What is the Mesozoic Era?
An underground stem from which new leaves and roots grow.
What is a rhizome?
These are the three ways that bacteria exchanges DNA.
What is conjugation, transduction, and transformation?
Over time, before death, all organisms do this.
What is grow / mature?
What is the name of the log that Charles Darwin kept along his journey on the HMS Beagle.
What is The Voyage of the Beagle?
The three periods that make up the Mesozoic.
What are the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods?
Another term for daily cycles, they are controlled by biological clocks.
What are circadian rhythms?
This Honey Mushroom in Oregon has a mycelium span of this length. (measure in km^2)
What is 9 km^2?