Biology
This level of organization is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
This term describes changes in a population’s allele frequencies over time.
What is biological evolution?
This scientific naming system uses two names: genus and species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
An organism that makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
This is the name of the protein coat of viruses
What is a capsid?
These structures have no current function and are evidence of evolutionary history.
What are vestigial structures?
The broadest taxonomic level that includes Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.
What is a domain?
Limiting factors that affect populations regardless of size, such as droughts or floods.
What are density-independent factors?
Only this percent of energy transfers from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
These organisms consume both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
This type of population growth forms an S-shaped curve due to limiting factors.
What is logistic growth?
Bird species that don’t interbreed because of different mating songs demonstrate this type of isolation.
What is behavioral isolation?
An organism with a nucleus, a cell wall made of chitin, and that gains energy through digestion belongs to this kingdom.
What is Fungi?
This process begins succession on bare rock after volcanic eruptions.
What is primary succession?
The viral cycle where the host cell is immediately destroyed.
What is the lytic cycle?
Structures that have similar anatomy due to common ancestry but different functions.
What are homologous structures?
This trophic level is not shown in most food webs but is essential for recycling matter. Includes detritovores and saprotrophs.
What are decomposers?
If two animals share the same Class, they also share these levels of classification.
This pattern suggests long periods of stability (no change) interrupted by rapid evolutionary change
What is punctuated equilibrium?
This bacterial process converts atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form
What is nitrogen fixation?
Unrelated species evolving similar traits due to similar environments is known as this.
What is convergent evolution?
This pattern of evolution originates from a common ancestor, and deviates from there (finches)
What is divergent evolution?
This type of reproductive isolation occurs when populations are separated by rivers, mountains, or other physical barriers.
What is geographic isolation?
If grass has 1,000 kcal, this is how much energy is available to a tertiary consumer.
What is 10 kilocalories?
This is the maximum population size an environment can consistently support.
What is carrying capacity?