Bio concept 4 Flashcards
Extinction
No longer on our planet (Exp: The Dodo bird)
extirpation
Extinction of an animal a certain area (Exp:The northern white rhino
Overspecialization
A species that has lived in a small and certain environment conditions to where they are threatened of extinction
Artificial selection
Breeding by humans to make plants and animals with desirable traits for them to produce an offspring with those traits
Natural selection
Where the environment selects which organisms will survive reproduction
Biotechnology
The use of living things to make agriculture, industrial, or medicinal products
Artificial insemination
Artificial collection of sperm from the male and injecting it to the female
artificial
Made/produced by humans
Insemination
Semen entering into an female animal/human either by natural or artificial means
In vitro fertilization
Fertilization that happens outside the body
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Genetic engineering
The change of DNA of a specious or population of an specious
Clone
Something that has the same DNA and looks ( if we are thinking Sci-FI)
In-situ conservation
The maintenance of a wild organism within their functioning ecosystem
Ex-situ conservation
The maintenance of an organisms outside of their ecosystem or natural habitat
