front 1 At its most basic, this unifying concept has been describe as "descent with Modification" | back 1 Evolution |
front 2 Founded the binomial classification system for living organisms. | back 2 Carolus Linnaeus |
front 3 The smallest unit of living things that can evolve. | back 3 Population |
front 4 This group, which includes the majority of unicellular eukaryote lineages, is sometimes called the "junk drawer" of modern phylogeny. | back 4 Protist |
front 5 The dominant generation of a seed plant's life cycle (gymnosperm or angiosperm) | back 5 Sporophyte |
front 6 Because fungi are unable to make their own food, they secrete enzymes to absorb it, which is a form of this nutritional mode. | back 6 Heterotrophy |
front 7 Two specialized types of cells/tissues that are only present in animals, and underlie many of their adaptions. | back 7 Muscle & Nerve |
front 8 Both gram positive and gram negative bacterial cells have this type of cell wall, just in differing amounts. | back 8 Peptidoglycan |
front 9 This protective layer keeps spores from drying out, and was a key adaption for plants moving to land. | back 9 Sporopollenin |
front 10 Fungi share the use of this structural material with their animal neighbors, the arthropods. | back 10 Chitin |
front 11 Most animal phyla show this type of body symmetry, as well as three germ layers | back 11 Bilateral |
front 12 This theory describes how eukaryotic cells originate, by engulfing small prokaryotes. | back 12 Endosymbiosis |
front 13 The presence of two types of spores, megaspores and microspores in seed plants. | back 13 Heterspory |
front 14 What is the name of the eukaryotic supergroup that includes the fungi and the animals? | back 14 Unikonta |
front 15 This group of brainy mollusks are predatory, and have a closed circulatory system, unlike their clammy cousins. | back 15 Cephlopod |
front 16 Major contribution to biology published by Charles Darwin. | back 16 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
front 17 In what year was Charles Darwin's work published? | back 17 1859 |
front 18 These pioneering photosynthesizers count the green and red algal groups as their closet relatives. | back 18 Land Plants |
front 19 What is the name of the protist supergroup containing land plants, red, and green algae? | back 19 Archaeplastida |
front 20 Localized regions of cell division at the tips of roots and shoots, these are one of the traits that separate plants from their algal relatives | back 20 Apical Meristems |
front 21 Name the other three traits that distinguish plants from algae, besides apical meristems. | back 21 Alternation of Generation
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front 22 These thin multicellular filaments make up the bulk of fungal growth. | back 22 Hyphae |
front 23 What are a network of hyphae called? | back 23 Mycelium |
front 24 Not only are these arthropods the most species rich group of any life form, they usually undergo some find of metamorphosis in their lifetime. | back 24 Insects |
front 25 What is an insect's molting process called? | back 25 Ecdysis |
front 26 The gene pool of a population that is not evolving is said to fit this principle. | back 26 Hardy Weinburg Equilibrium |
front 27 Name five characteristics of a population not evolving. | back 27 No Mutation
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front 28 This group of small, single celled organisms without organelles don't appear to fit the "biological species concept", because they lack lack sexual reproduction. | back 28 Prokaryotes |
front 29 The female reproductive element of an angiosperm flower, it produces megaspores and, therefore female gametophytes. The ovary is in its base. | back 29 Carpel |
front 30 The process of haploid nuclei fusing and producing diploid cells/ | back 30 Karyogamy |
front 31 The fusion of cytoplasm. | back 31 Plasmogamy |
front 32 Lancelets, tunicates, and hagfishes represent three groups of chordates that are pre- this major grouping of the animal kingdom. | back 32 Vertebrates |
front 33 Most of the vertebrates are gnathosomes, which means they have what feature? | back 33 Jaws |
front 34 What is the proximate age of Earth? | back 34 4.6 Billion Years |
front 35 These two categories represent the two parts of each organism's scientific name? | back 35 Genus & Species |
front 36 The maintenance of steady state in an animal, despite internal and external changes. | back 36 Homeostasis |
front 37 Examples in a plant include stems, leaves, roots, and flowers in angiosperms. | back 37 Organs |
front 38 These major zones of life on earth are characterized by physical environment and vegetation type. | back 38 Biome |
front 39 Fossils can be aged using the unstable decay of isotopes in this process. | back 39 Radiometric Dating |
front 40 These three domains represent all of life on earth. | back 40 Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya |
front 41 These are the four stages of food processing that take place in an animal. | back 41 Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, & Elimination |
front 42 This type of cell is your "average plant cell", and typically will photosynthesize or store materials. | back 42 Parenchyma |
front 43 In this top layer of an aquatic biome, organisms can produce their own food from sunlight. | back 43 Photic Zone |
front 44 Both the Cambrian Explosion and the colonization of land happened around this same relative time period in the earth's history. | back 44 500 Million Years Ago |
front 45 The evolutionary history of a species, or group of species, often represented in a branched diagram. | back 45 Phylogeny |
front 46 The daily fluctuations in metabolism and behavior in an animal, which are attuned to the cycles of light and dark in the environment. | back 46 Circadian Rhythm |
front 47 The root apical meristem is protected by this structure, as it pushes down through the ground. | back 47 Root Cap |
front 48 This change in a human population occurs as a result of improved sanitation, education, and health care, as the population moves from high birth and death rates and short lifespans, to low birth and death rates and long lifespans. | back 48 Demographic Transistion |
front 49 The geological phenomenon greatly influenced the physical environment, climate patterns, and the distribution of species on the exposed parts of the earth's plates. | back 49 Continental Drift |
front 50 What type of speciation does continental drift represent? | back 50 Allopatric |
front 51 Groups of organisms that share an immediate common ancestor/branch point, and are each other's closest relatives. | back 51 Sister Taxa |
front 52 Mammmals have how many circuits in their circulation. | back 52 2 |
front 53 What are the names of the two circuits mammals have? | back 53 Pulmonary & Systemic |
front 54 This phenomenon, consisting of solute concentration and physical pressure, is responsible for the direction of water movement in a plant. | back 54 Water Potential |
front 55 Exponential population growth is represented by this letter in our population growth equation. | back 55 R |
front 56 The exponential curve is shaped like what letter? | back 56 J |
front 57 This mass extinction ended the era of the dinosaurs. | back 57 Cretaceous Extinction |
front 58 What is the prevailing theory for the cause of dinosaur extinction? | back 58 Asteroid Collision |
front 59 This monophyletic grouping includes an ancestral species and all of its descendants in a tree shaped diagram. | back 59 Clade |
front 60 The name of the structures within the lungs where gas exchange occurs. | back 60 Alveoli |
front 61 The substance that moves from sources to sinks in plant vascular tissue. | back 61 Sugar |
front 62 This type of interaction occurs when two species live in direct and close contact or association with each other. These interactions can be harmful, helpful, or neutral. | back 62 Symbiosis |