Biology Final

Front 1

Who is recognized as the father of evolution?

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Darwin

Front 2

What type of growth cannot continue at a rapid rate without crashing?

Back 2

Exponential

Front 3

The sum total of all the planet’s ecosystems is called what?

Back 3

Biosphere

Front 4

Non living components of the environment are called what?

Back 4

Abiotic

Front 5

Plants, bacteria, and fungi and humans are which type of organisms in the environment?

Back 5

Biotic

Front 6

Water, Air, and Gases would be described as what?

Back 6

Abiotic

Front 7

Which properties emerge at the level of the individual?

Back 7

None of the above

Front 8

What do you call the 3 dimensional arrangement of the organisms in the environment?

Back 8

Dispersion

Front 9

What type of growth normally stabilizes or levels off near the carrying capacity?

Back 9

Logistic

Front 10

Interconnecting food chains make up what?

Back 10

Food Web

Front 11

What generally happens to organisms as you go up the food chain?

Back 11

Get larger

Front 12

All organisms are ultimately utilized by what?

Back 12

Decomposers

Front 13

Humans are what?

Back 13

Omnivores

Front 14

How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?

Back 14

10%

Front 15

Different feeding levels are called what?

Back 15

Trophic levels

Front 16

If a small bird eats a plant, the fox eats the bird, what is the fox called?

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Secondary Consumer

Front 17

As you go up the food chain, what generally happens to the organisms at each level?

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Less Numerous

Front 18

What’s another name for herbivores?

Back 18

Primary Consumers

Front 19

The number of individuals in a population that the local environment can support for a specified period of time is known as what?

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Carrying Capacity

Front 20

What kind of factors do we consider Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Floods?

Back 20

Density Independent

Front 21

Dogs are a good example of what?

Back 21

Artificial Selection

Front 22

In natural selection, what is selected?

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The entire Genotype

Front 23

In a diploid organism, variations may be stored or hidden as what?

Back 23

Recessive Traits

Front 24

What must exist among the individuals of any population?

Back 24

Variation

Front 25

What was Mendal working on when Darwin was writing his book?

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Peas

Front 26

How many different characteristics did Mendal work with?

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7

Front 27

Mendal’s work was discovered when?

Back 27

1900

Front 28

How many of the traits Mendal worked with were linked?

Back 28

None

Front 29

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time is called what?

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Population

Front 30

Which factors would be density dependent?

Back 30

Food, Water, or Shelter

Front 31

The mating habits of Snow Geese is an example of what?

Back 31

Non random mating

Front 32

The coexistence within a population of two or more phenotypically distinct forms is called what?

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Polymorphism

Front 33

Mutations occur how?

Back 33

Simultaneously

Front 34

The movement of alleles into or out of a population is called what?

Back 34

Gene Flow

Front 35

The situation where a small population branches off of a large one. Some can be lost or represented.

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Founder Effect

Front 36

The most important method by which Eukaryotic organisms promote variation in their offspring is what?

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Sexual Reproduction

Front 37

Sexual Reproduction produces new genetic combination by what?

Back 37

Crossing Over

Front 38

Evolution can be defined as any change in the frequency of what in the gene pool?

Back 38

Allelles

Front 39

It’s estimated that each new human carries how many new mutations?

Back 39

2

Front 40

The northern elephant seal is a good example of what?

Back 40

Population Bottleneck

Front 41

What did McClintock work with?

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Jumping Genes

Front 42

What did McClintock win?

Back 42

Nobel Prize in Medicine

Front 43

Darwin cannot explain the sudden appearance of what?

Back 43

New traits

Front 44

Darwin could not explain how traits were transmitted from parents to what?

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Offspring

Front 45

How much genetics did Darwin know?

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None

Front 46

Mendal taught what subject?

Back 46

Mathematics

Front 47

The sum total of all the alleles of the genes, of all the individuals in the population is called what?

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Gene Pool

Front 48

What’s the primary unit of ecological study?

Back 48

Population

Front 49

The reproductive potential of most organisms is ___.

Back 49

High

Front 50

Which of the following is Density Dependent Factor?

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Food, Water, and Shelter

Front 51

What name is given to an organism that eats only meat?

Back 51

Carnivore

Front 52

What name is given to an organism that eats only plants?

Back 52

Herbivore

Front 53

What name is given to an organism that eats plants and animals?

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Omnivore

Front 54

All organisms must eventually be_____.

Back 54

Decomposed

Front 55

The reproductive potential of most organisms is ____.

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Unmet

Front 56

The whole world is considered to be a what?

Back 56

Biosphere

Front 57

The living component of the ecosystem is referred to as what?

Back 57

Biotic

Front 58

The number of organisms in a population is called its what?

Back 58

Density

Front 59

The number of organisms that an environment can support for a long period of time is called what?

Back 59

Carrying Capacity

Front 60

A diagram of what eats what is called a what?

Back 60

Food Chain

Front 61

What generally happens to organisms as you go down the food chain?

Back 61

Get smaller/More numerous

Front 62

Which organisms manufacture food?

Back 62

Producers

Front 63

Bacteria and Fungi are called what?

Back 63

Decomposers

Front 64

If man eats a turkey for Thanksgiving, he would be what?

Back 64

Secondary Consumer

Front 65

If you want to increase the number of individuals in the area, you have to change what?

Back 65

Habitat

Front 66

A hurricane would be an example of what type of factor?

Back 66

Density Independent

Front 67

The American eagle would be an example of what?

Back 67

Population bottleneck

Front 68

How many sets of chromosomes does a diploid organism have?

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2

Front 69

Increased growth of the F1 plant over either parent is called what?

Back 69

Hybrid Vigor

Front 70

What do you have to cross to get a hybrid?

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Inbred lines

Front 71

What did Mendal win for his work?

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Nothing

Front 72

Snow Geese are a good example of what?

Back 72

Non random mating

Front 73

An organism can promote variation in the offspring by____.

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Crossing over

Front 74

An organism can promote variation in the offspring by____.

Back 74

Random Assortment of the Chromosomes During Miosis.

Front 75

Which organisms will survive in population?

Back 75

Fittest

Front 76

What is the lowest level of study in Ecology?

Back 76

Individual