Final Exam Vocab Flashcards
Plants that live for one year.
Annual
Plants that produce flowers, seeds, and fruits.
Angiosperm
How an organism acts, what it does, and how it does it.
Behavior
One class of organic molecules composed of C,H, O in the ratio of 1:2:1.
Carbohydrate
The basic structural units of all living things.
Cell
Thin sheets of material composed of phospholipids and proteins; some proteins have attached CHO or fats.
Cell membrane
Double stranded DNA molecules with attached protein (nucleoprotein) coiled into a short, compact unit.
Chromosome
Populations of different kinds of organisms that interact with one another in a particular place.
Community
The internal framework of eukaryotic cells composed of intermediate filaments, microtubules, and microfilamente.
Cytoplasm
The net movement of a kind of molecule from an area of a higher concentration to an area of lesser concentration.
Diffusion
Molecules, produced by organism, that are able to control the rate at which chemical reactions occur.
Enzyme
A change in the frequency of genetically determined characteristics within a population over time.
Evolution
Genetic information determining one characteristic of an organism.
Gene
The catalog of genes of an organism, whether or not these genes are expressed.
Genotype
Plants that produce their seeds in cones.
Gymnosperms
The place or part of a community occupied by an organisms.
Habitat
The muscular pump that forces blood through the blood vessels in the body.
Heart
The primary organs involved in regulating blood levels of water, hydrogen ions, salts, and urea.
Kidney
A change in behaviors as a result or experience.
Learning
Large organic molecules that do not easily dissolve in water; classes include true (neutral) fats, phospholipids, and steroids.
Lipid
Organs of the body that allow gas exchange to take place between the air and the blood.
Lung
A primary process that brings about evolution by selecting which individuals will survive, reproduce, and pass on their genes to the next generation.
Natural Selection
An organisms specific functional role in its community.
Niche
Complex molecules that store and transfer information within a cell.
Nucleic Acid
The central body that contains the information system for the cell; also the central part of an atom containing protons and neurons.
Nucleus
Cellular structures that perform specific functions in the cell; the function of organelles is directly related to their structure.
Organelle
Plants that live through several years.
Perennial
The physical, chemical, and behavioral, expression of the genes possessed by an organism.
Phenotype
Macromolecules made up of one or more polypeptides attached to each other by bonds.
Protein
A population of organisms potentially capable of breeding naturally among themselves & having offspring that also interbreed.
Species
Animals with backbones.
Vertebrate
