Biodiversity & Niches
Animals that are able to spread over large areas.
What are generalists?
A cell produces a new group of cells that detach from the parent and become independent.
What is budding?
Something that causes a mutation.
What is a mutagen?
This explains how a process closely related to artificial selection occurs in nature.
What is natural selection?
The extinction of a species in certain locales.
What is extirpation?
This allows an animal to adapt to only a certain way of living that is not flexible.
What is a narrow niche?
The male reproductive organ in a plant.
What is a stamen?
When there is a limited number of possibilities for a characteristic.
What is discrete variation?
Fish farming.
What is aquaculture?
These gather and store seeds from plants that are threatened with extinction.
What are seed banks?
The number and variety of organisms in an area.
What is biodiversity?
A form of cell division that results in identical offspring.
What is binary fission?
The characteristic that will appear in offspring if mixed with a recessive gene.
What is a dominant trait?
Genetically modified animals, AKA _________________
What are transgenic animals?
Any species that can effectively indicate the condition of an environment.
What is a bioindicator species?
The habits of a species that have been developed over time.
What are behavioral adaptations?
A zygote undergoes many cell divisions to form this.
What is an embryo?
Long form of "DNA".
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Moving pieces of DNA from one cell to another
What is genetic modification?
Preserves, refuges, and national parks set up to protect wildlife and habitat.
What are protected areas?
A mathematical expression of the different kinds of organisms in an area.
What is diversity index?
This occurs when only one parent supplies the information to the offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
Different kinds of body cells.
What are somatic cells?
Brings the positive characteristics of two different varieties of a species together.
What is selective breeding?
OR artificial selection?
Drawn up to protect endangered plants and animals.
What are global treaties?