Alien Survivor Terms

Question 1

Climate

Answer 1

The annual amount of precipitation and temperature ranges of an area over a long period of time

Question 2

Biotic

Answer 2

The living components of an ecosystem

Question 3

Omnivores

Answer 3

Organisms that eat both consumers and producers

Question 4

Herbivores

Answer 4

Consumers that eat producers

Question 5

Insertion

Answer 5

Adding extra nucleotides in the genetic sequence

Question 6

Carnivores

Answer 6

Consumers that eat other consumers

Question 7

Radiation

Answer 7

The emission of energy or particles from a radioactive source

Question 8

Consumers

Answer 8

Organisms that eat other organisms in order to gain nutrients

Question 9

Amino acid

Answer 9

Coded for in triplets in the genetic code

Question 10

Mutagen

Answer 10

An agent that causes DNA mutations

Question 11

Substitution

Answer 11

Mutation as a result of switching nucleotides with other nitrogenous bases

Question 12

Grafting

Answer 12

Artificial method of asexual reproduction in plants used to combine favourable stem characteristics with favourable root characteristics

Question 13

Producers

Answer 13

Organisms that make their own food

Question 14

Foodweb

Answer 14

System of interlacing and interdependent food chains

Question 15

Carbon

Answer 15

A nutrient found in many stores in and around Earth

Question 16

Codon

Answer 16

A three letter word in the genetic code

Question 17

Photosynthesis

Answer 17

Process by which plants comvert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen, powered by sunlight

Question 18

Deletion

Answer 18

DNA mutation resulting from missing nitrogenous bases in the genetic code

Question 19

Abiotic

Answer 19

The non-living components of an ecosystem

Question 20

Biome

Answer 20

Region typically defined by climate and dominant vegetation

Question 21

Scion

Answer 21

Shoot part of a plant

Question 22

Virus

Answer 22

A small infectious agent that invades and replicates insdie cells

Question 23

Vegetative reproduction

Answer 23

A form of asexual reproduction in plants

Question 24

Runners

Answer 24

Also called stolons, horizontal stems that grow outward from a plant for distribution and reproduction of clone off-spring

Question 25

Proteins

Answer 25

Long chains of amino acids