Chapter 6 Review Flashcards
How does life continue to form new organisms?
Reproduction
What is it called when one organism is better suited for an environment than another?
Natural selection
What is the name of early seed growth?
Germination
The CNS contains?
brain, brain stem, and spinal cord
What is the name for an organism’s home?
habitat
What is the filmy bacteria on teeth?
plaque
Angiosperm seeds are inside of?
fruits
Legumes are part of what plant family?
Pea
What says that life is from chance and natural processes?
evolution
What is the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma
pollination
How do plants make food?
photosynthesis
What is the moment of water from a high % to a lower percentage through a one way semi permeable membrane?
osmosis
The sum of all bodily activities?
Metabolism
Tiny air sacs in the lungs are called?
Alveoli
Who was the Father of Anatomy?
Vesalius
What is it called when more than one leaf is attached to a petiole
Compound
What term refers to the similarities of design?
Homology
What is the largest part of the brain?
Cerebrum
Who used broth to disprove spontaneous generation?
Louis Pasteur
What term refers to a tail that is capable of grabbing?
prehensile
What is an untested explanation to a scientific problem?
hypothesis
What term says that the present is the key to the past?
uniformitarianism
Creation without variation since the beginning is what view?
lawn view
What type of symmetry can be cut in half multiple ways?
radial
A plant that lives for only 1 year?
annual
The type of fracture that pierces the skin?
compound
Flora means
flower/plant
What is the variation within a species’ gene pool called?
speciation
A strong feeling expressed in a physical way?
emotion
A sudden permanent change to DNA.
mutation
Poor nutrition due to a poor diet?
malnutrition
The observed factor to determine results of an experiment?
dependent
Hormones come from what system?
endocrine
The lower chambers of the heart are called?
ventricles
What food group contains sugar and starch?
carbohydrates
The __________________ filters blood and stores extra glucose.
liver
The _____________________ carry blood back to the heart.
veins
The layer of skin directly above the dermis?
epidermis
The body system that breaks down food into nutrients?
digestive
What group of drugs is alcohol?
depressant
__________________________ activities strengthen the heart and lungs?
aerobic
What system controls bodily function?
nervous
A disease caused by a pathogen?
infectious
What is the most commonly abused hallucinogen?
marijuana
Who wrote Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
Evolution with short, rapid bursts of change followed by periods of no change?
punctuated equilibrium
An originally created type of organism?
kind
