Adaptations
These are physical features that help an organism survive in its environment.
What are structural adaptations?
A relationship in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
This type of reproduction requires only one parent and produces genetically identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
The amount of genetic variation found within a population.
What is genetic diversity?
The production of genetically identical individuals.
The production of genetically identical individuals.
Huddling by penguins is an example of this type of adaptation.
What is a behavioural adaptation?
The relationship between cattle egrets and cattle is an example of this interaction, where one benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
A bacterium dividing into two genetically identical daughter cells is reproducing in this way.
What is binary fission?
Because any individual can potentially reproduce with many different partners, this source of variation increases diversity.
What is random mating?
This cloning technique involves dividing an early embryo into multiple identical embryos.
What is embryo splitting?
Countercurrent exchange is an example of this type of adaptation.
What is a physiological adaptation?
This interaction occurs when one organism gains nutrients at the expense of a host.
What is parasitism?
Yeast reproduces using this process, where a small outgrowth develops and eventually separates.
What is budding?
Along with crossing over, this meiotic process shuffles chromosomes into different combinations.
What is independent assortment?
The first step of somatic cell nuclear transfer involves removing a nucleus from an egg cell, a process called this.
What is enucleation?
This term describes the range of environmental conditions within which an organism can survive and reproduce.
What is a tolerance range?
Competition between a lion and a hyena for food would be classified as this type of competition.
What is interspecific competition?
Sea stars can reproduce using this process, where pieces of the parent grow into complete organisms.
What is fragmentation?
The union of any one sperm with any one egg is known by this term.
What is random fertilisation?
Enucleation, extraction, insertion and development are the four major stages of this cloning process.
What is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)?
Produces heat shock proteins, has long legs and protective hairs and climbs onto sticks to get off the ground
What is a Saharan Silver Ant?
This form of mutualism occurs when neither species can survive and reproduce without the other.
What is obligate mutualism?
The ability to produce offspring rapidly without finding a mate is a major advantage of this reproductive strategy.
What is asexual reproduction?
Populations with high levels of this characteristic are more likely to survive disease outbreaks and environmental change.
What is genetic diversity?
A farmer wants to repeatedly produce livestock with desirable traits. This is one major application of cloning.
What is agricultural cloning?