Biological Diversity Vocab: Collin

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Biological Diversity

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Different species of animals in one place living like the food chain.

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Biotic

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Describes one living/non-living thing in a community

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Population

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The total inhabitants in one area

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Niche

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The position or place of something

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Decomposer

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An organism that breaks down organic materials

(ex. fungus, moss, lichen)

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Commensalism

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One of two organisms that take benefits from the other without affect.

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Inter species Competition

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When two different species compete for the same thing. Individuals from the same species also compete.

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Variation

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A difference in traits, level, amounts from something.

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Heritable Characteristics

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Traits that get transferred through your DNA.

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Continuous Traits

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Traits that are transferred over a mayor scale.

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Budding

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Plant developing buds

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Cuttings

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Something cut from another thing

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Plant Variation

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Difference between cells in plants

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Gametes

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A cell that can combine with another cell

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Cleavage

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Cell division in a federalized egg

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Pollination

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when pollen is transferred to the female part of the plant

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Chromosome

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Nucleic acids and proteins in the neculus of the cell

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Mitosis

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Cells are identical to parents

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Purebred

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When the parents are the same breed

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Recessive Trait

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They have the same genes but do not look the same

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Extirpation

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Extinction of a species in an area

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Habitat Distruction

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The destruction of habitats.

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Biotechnology

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The biological enhances

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In-virto Fertilization

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Working with a species in its environment to help it.

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Ex-situ Conservation

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Working with a species outside its environment to help it

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Interspecies

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The occurring of two species

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Abiotic

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Non-living

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Community

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Many species in one place making a community

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Producer

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An organism that supplies a community

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Predator-Prey

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The relationship of one superior predator and it feeds on its prey

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Mutualism

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Both organisms are involved.

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Resource Partitioning

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when two species take from the same resource in one place

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Natural Selection

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When the organisms adapt overtime to their environment

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Non-Heritable Characteristics

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The characteristics that are not inherited from the parents.

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Asexual Reproduction

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The reproduction of cells in one organism not two

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Spore Production

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It adapts the organism to the environment over time

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Fertilization

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Fertilizing an egg from a male to female

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Embryo

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Unborn or unhatched offspring in development

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Cross-fertilization

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Gametes are made with separate individuals

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Gene

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The inherited traits from the parent(s) of an organism

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Meiosis

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The prosess of the gametes being joined in reproduction

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Hybrid

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Offspring of two different species. ex cross bred dogs

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Incomplete Dominance

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When there is little inheritance in one allete

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Endagered

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When a species is close to extiction

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Invasive Species

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When a species that is not native is introduced and messes things up

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Cloning

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An organism with identical DNA as another

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Genetic Engineering

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Modifying the genetic material to enhance or make something immune

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Intraspecies

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Arising or occurring between species

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Species

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A group of organisms that are similar in traits and breed together

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Ecosystem

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A group of many species that work together to keep the food chain working

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Consumer

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Organisms that get energy from eating other organisms

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Symbiosis

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Two organisms that work together to live

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Parasitism

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One species depends on the other to live and the other is harmed

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Artificial Selection

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Traits that are determined by the way an organism acts

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Discrete Traits

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Traits that are determined by a small number of genes

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Binary Fusion

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When one cell breaks into two more cells

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Vegetative Reproduction

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when a plant takes a part of itself and is planted to make an identical plant

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Sexual Reproduction

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When two gametes are met and make life

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Zygote

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What the gametes make

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Pollen

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The reproductive cells of a plant

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DNA

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Formed by nucleic acids to make cells

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Allele

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One form or the gene. When two are put together they make a gene

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Traits

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The features of an organism

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Dominant Trait

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Expressed by having two alleles

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Extinction

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Then a species is taken off the earth forever

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Artificial Selection

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Breeding organisms to make adaptations

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Artificial Insemination

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When sperm is put into the uterus to induce pregnancy

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In-situ Conservation

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When a species is conserved in its natural habitat