Alien Survivor Flashcards
(24 cards)
Insertion
Adding extra nucleotides in the genetic sequence
Amino acid
Code for triplets
Carnivore
Consumers that eat consumers
Grafting
Artificial method of asexual reproduction in plants used to combine favourable stem characteristics with favourable root characteristics
Producer
Organism that makes their own food
Codon
A three letter word in the genetic code
Biome
Region typically defined by climate and dominant vegetation
Vegetative reproduction
A form of asexual reproduction
Protein
Long chains of amino acids
Climate
The annual amount of precipitation and temperature ranges of an area over a long period of time
Omnivore
Organisms that eat both consumers and producers
Biotic
Living components of an ecosystem
Herbivore
Consumers that eat producers
Radiation
The emission of energy or particles from a radioactive source
Consumer
Organisms that eat other organisms in order to gain nutrients
Mutagen
An agent that causes DNA mutations
Substitution
Mutation as a result of switching nucleotides with other nitrogen bases
Food web
System interlacing and interdependent food chains
Carbon
A nutrient found in stores and around the earth
Photosynthesis
Process by which plants convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen, powered by sunlight
Deletion
DNA mutation resulting from missing nitrogenous bases from genetic code
Abiotic
Non-living parts of an ecosystem
Virus
A small infectious agent that invades and replicates inside cells
Runner
Also called stolons, horizontal stems that grow outward from a plant for distribution and reproduction of cloning off-spring
