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Chapter 13-15
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Mr. Whybrew's Surprises
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Darwin’s idea of ______________________ states that today’s organisms are related to past organisms.
What is common descent?
100
Viruses are not ______________ things and are not classified in a _____________________.
What is living and domain?
100
All of the organisms of a particular species found in a certain area form a _______________________.
What is community?
100
When people eat meat, they are ______________________ consumers in an ecosystem.
What is secondary?
100
The remains or impressions of an organism that lived in the past.
What are fossils? or What is a fossil?
200
The theory of modern synthesis states that evolution involves changes in a population’s __________________________.
What is gene pool?
200
Many ___________________ live in extreme conditions.
What is archaea?
200
A _______________________ describes the role played by a species in a community.
What is niche?
200
Every food chain ends with ___________________.
What are decomposers?
200
To change genetically over generations to become more suited to the environment.
What is adapt?
300
Lamarck’s ideas about evolution stated a giraffe’s long neck was a(n) __________________________.
What is an acquired trait?
300
In most eukaryotic cells, sexual reproduction is by ____________________________.
What is meiosis?
300
In a community, _________________________ refers to the number of different species present.
What is diversity?
300
The ___________________ is the largest part of an energy pyramid.
What is the bottom?
300
The study of the geographical distribution of fossils and living organisms.
What is Biogeography?
400
Mendel developed the theory of ____________________________.
What is genetics?
400
____________ are members of the domain Eukarya.
What is fungi?
400
A scientist who studies the interactions of organisms with their environments is a(n) _________________________.
What is an ecologist?
400
Rain and snow are examples of __________________________ in an ecosystem.
What is precipitation?
400
The study of the anatomy of different species.
What is comparative anatomy?
500
Darwin thought ________________________ was needed for a species to change.
What is natural selection?
500
The science of classifying organisms based on shared features is _________________________.
What is taxonomy?
500
Organisms that are ______________________ are entering a population.
What is immigrating?
500
Cellular respiration produces ________________________, which cycles back into the ecosystem.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
The study of the biochemical and molecular processes within cells.
What is Molecular Biology?