Bio

Question 1

Natural Selection/Survival of the Fittest

Answer 1

Organisms best suited to a particular environment survive

Question 2

Fossil Record

Answer 2

Most direct evidence of evolution

Parade of successive changes in fossils.

Question 3

5 Agents of Evolution

Answer 3

1) Mutation
2) Migration
3) Genetic Drift
4) Nonrandom Mating
5) Selection

Question 4

2 Types of Selection

Answer 4

Artificial

Natural

Question 5

Species

Answer 5

Groups of interbreeding populations which are reproductively isolated from other groups

Question 6

Speciation

Answer 6

Successive change in natural selection

Question 7

Carlolus Linnaeus

Answer 7

18th century Swedish professor, physician, and naturalist

Question 8

Linnaean System

Answer 8

Binomial system for naming species of organisms

Question 9

Binomial Nomenclature

Answer 9

First name Genus

Second name Species

Question 10

Taxonomy

Answer 10

Branch of Biology that names taxon groups

Question 11

9 levels of organization of life on earth

Answer 11

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Subphylum
Class 
Order
Family
Genus
Species

“Dat King Phillip Came Over For Green Spaghetti “

Question 12

Six Kingdoms of life on earth

Answer 12

Bacteria
Archaea
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia

Question 13

Charles Darwin

Answer 13

British Naturalist

Proposed natural selection as the process of evolution.

Question 14

What types of cells first lived on earth and how long have they been here?

Answer 14

Prokaryotes who have been on earth for 2.5 billion years

Question 15

Endospore

Answer 15

Thick wall which is highly resistant to environmental stress

Question 16

How do bacteria reproduce?

Answer 16

Binary Fission

Question 17

How do bacteria share DNA with each other?

Answer 17

Conjugation

Question 18

Virus

Answer 18

Parasitic chemicals in DNA

Question 19

What is the most lethal virus in human history?

Answer 19

Influenza

Question 20

What virus can only infect bacteria?

Answer 20

Bacteriophages

Question 21

How do new strains of flu arise?

Answer 21

Shifts in flu virus H-N combinations when a person/animal becomes infected with different strains

Question 22

Protists

Answer 22

Most ancient Eukaryote, not Fungi, plants or animals.

Question 23

Why are protists important to humans?

Answer 23

Most diseases caused by protists, make up both good and bad algae.

Question 24

Fungi

Answer 24

They look like plants but lack chlorophyll and no photosynthesis

Question 25

Why are fungi important to humans?

Answer 25

There are many commercial uses and they are decomposers.

Question 26

4 key aspects of plant evolution

Answer 26

1. Alternation of generations 2. Vascular Tissue 3. Seeds 4. Flowers and Fruits

Question 27

Vascular vs. non-vascular plants

Answer 27

Tubes/pipes to transport water and nutrients

Question 28

Gymnosperms

Answer 28

Most ancients plants, 4 types, most common today are conifers. Produce seeds in cones, use wind pollination.

Question 29

Angiosperms

Answer 29

90% of plants today. Animal pollination. Ovule is completely enclosed by sporophyte tissue when it is fertilized.

Question 30

6 key transitions in animal body development

Answer 30

1. Evolution of Tissues 2. Evolution of Bilateral Symmetry 3. Evolution of a body cavity 4. Evolution of segments 5. Evolution of molting 6. Evolution of deuterostome development