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Biology-Natural selection/evolution Flashcards

To learn about natural selection/evolution

1
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Define

Species

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A group of organism that can breed with each other

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Define

Habitat

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Where an animal/plant species live

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Define

Community

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A lot of the same animals/ plants in the same place

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Define

Biodiversity

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A lot of different communities in one place.The more diverse the communities, the higher the biodiversity

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Will a small jungle be more diverse than a large potato field?

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Yes

The jungle may be small but it has more communities in it

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Define

Competition

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How animals try to fight against other animals to survive, only allowing the fittest to thrive

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Explain

“Survial of the fittest”

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Essentially, it means that the forms or traits that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to leave more offspring in successive generations

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What are the four animal competitions?

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  • Food
  • Territory
  • Water
  • Mates
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What are the four plant competitions?

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  • Light
  • Space
  • Water/minerals
  • Pollinaters
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What is the difference between

Interspecific and Intraspecific competition

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  • Interspecific: Between different species
  • Intraspecific: Between same species
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Define

Food chain/cycle/web

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A diagram that shows the flow of nutrients through an ecoystem’s inhabitants eating of eachother.

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Define

Trophic level

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The energy level at which an animal is in a food chain/cycle/web.The higher the level, the less energy the animal recieves,and the more food it’s needs to survive.

Basically survial of the fittest

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Define

Producer

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An organism which produces it’s own food using light.

Eg:Plants,algae,amobea

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Define

Comuser

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Organism who comsumes other organisms

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Define

Primary comuser

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An organism who comsumes only producers

Eg:Cows,Parrots,Vegans

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Define

Secondary Comuser

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One who comsumes other comsuers/producers

Eg:Buffalo,Blackbird,Us

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Define

Top predator

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The animal of the highest trophic level in a food chain/cycle/web, who is not/rarley eaten by other comsuer

Eg:Eagle,lion,Around 50% of the human population

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Define

Decomposer

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Organism who decomposethe remains of an eaten animal/plant in which the comsuer has not comsumed

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Define

Predator

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An animals which hunts and kills other animal for it’s food

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Define

Prey

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An animal who is hunted, or killed by other predators.

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Define

Scavenger

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An animal who eats the remains of a dead animal

22
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Define

Herbivore

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An organism who eats only producers

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Define

Carnivore

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An organism who eats only comusers

24
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Define

Ommivore

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An organism who eats both producers and comsumers

25
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How many steps are in the predator/prey cycle?

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4

26
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What is the difference between

Biotic and Abiotic

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  • Biotic: Living factors(Eg: Another predator eats too many prey)
  • Abiotic: Non-living factors(Eg: A flood kills of many of the animals in the community , weakening them)
27
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Define

Variants

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Individuals that are similar but not the same, they be caused by genetics(during fertilisation), environment, or both.

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Define

Variantation

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Different charastics between organisms

29
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What is the difference between

Countionous and Non-countionous

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  • Continuous:Numeric Variantations (Eg: Height)
  • Non-continuous:Categoric Variantation(Eg: Eye colour)

(yes different heightened animals are variants, we just don’t call it out)

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What is the difference between

Inherited and Enviromental variantations?

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  • Inherited:Charateristics given to an organism by their parent organism(s)
  • Enviromental:Characteristics given to an organsim, based on it’s enviroment, and where it lives.
31
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What does this stand for:

DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic Acid

32
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What is the name of DNA’s sturcture?

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Double helix

33
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What are the rungs of DNA called?

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Nucleotides

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Nulecitotoes bonds(Quanies):

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  • A to T
  • C to G
35
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Define

Genes

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A sequence of nucelotides in a certian order that, whne read by ribsomes, act as insturctions for making proteins in the cell

36
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Define

Chromsones

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  • Thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells.
  • They are made of protein and a single molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
  • Each chromosome carries genetic information, or genes, that determine an individual’s traits and characteristics
37
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How many chromsones does the average human have.

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46

38
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  • Mitosis makes?
  • Meiosis makes?
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  • Body cells
  • Sex cells
39
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Which two group of men were responsible for the discovery of DNA

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  • Frankin and Watkins
  • Watson and Cricle
40
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Define

Mutations

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When the DNA makes a mistake in translation, causing an abnormal feature.

41
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Define

Adaptation

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A feature of an organism that helps said organism to survive in it’s habitat

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Define

What are the three adaptation types:

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  • Sturctual:Adaptations to do with a physical part of the organism body
  • Behavioural:Adaptations to do with the organism behaviour
  • Physicological:Adaptation to do with the organism chosing to perform a process/mutation in order to survive
43
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Define

Exinction

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When the last memeber of a species dies with offspring, causing the disaperance of the species worldwide.

44
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List

The Exinction scale

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  1. Exinct
  2. Exinct in Wild
  3. Critically Endangered
  4. Endangered
  5. Vunerabe
  6. Near-Theartened
  7. Least Concern
  8. Data Deficent
  9. Not Evaluated
45
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List

Some ways to protect endangered animals(5)

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  • Animal charaties
  • National trusts
  • National parks
  • Zoos
  • Protection orders on species
46
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Define

Fossils

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The mineralized ,partial or complete form of an organism, or of an organism’s activity, that has been preserved as a cast, impression, or mold.

47
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Define

Fossil record

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History of all life on earth as documented by fossils

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