Living Environment Regents Prep

Any information that is collected with any of the senses.

The results of specific trials or tests completed during experiments.

A statement that predicts a relationship between cause and effect in a way that can be tested.

<p>A method of reproduction that involves two parents producing offspring that are genetically different from either parent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of reproduction in which all the genes passed on to the offspring come from a single individual or parent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any change in the environment that causes an organism to react.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability of an organism to maintain a stable internal environment even when the external environment changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which species have changed over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A large structure within a cell that controls the cell's metabolism and stores genetic information, including chromosomes and DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any one of several building blocks of protein.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proteins that speed up the rate of chemical reactions in living things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of organisms that share certain characteristics and can mate with one another, producing fertile offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A combination of all the different populations that live and interact in the same environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the living and non-living things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on Earth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism that makes its own food from light energy and inorganic materials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism that obtains its energy from producers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism, generally a bacteria or fungus, that consumes dead organisms and organic waste.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A representation that identifies the specific relationships among organisms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A representation of many interconnected food chains that shows the feeding relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The living parts of the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nonliving parts of the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The place where a plant or animal lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The specific role played by an organism or a population of organisms in the ecosystem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which an existing community is replaced by another community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any factor in the environment that limits the size of a population.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The variety of species in an area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An increase in Earth's average surface temperature caused by an increase in greenhouse gases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The basic unit of structure and function that makes up all organisms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A thick threadlike structure that contains genetic information in the form of DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tiny structures in the cell that are the sites of protein production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Storage sacs within the cytoplasm of a cell that may contain either wastes or useful materials, such as water or food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pod-shaped organelles that contain enzymes used to extract energy from nutrients.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Green organelles that contain chlorophyll; where photosynthesis takes place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The thin boundary between the cell and its environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The constant small corrections that normally occur to keep an organism's internal environment within the limits needed for survival.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of specialized cells that perform a specific function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A body structure made of different kinds of tissues combined to perform a specific function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Several organs that work together to perform a major function in the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process in which nutrients are broken apart, releasing the chemical energy stored in them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process that divides the cell's nucleus into two, each with a complete set of genetic material from the parent cell.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process that results in the production of sex cells (sperm and egg).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process that combines a sperm cell and an egg cell.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring through the genes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A segment of DNA (on a chromosome) that contains the code for a specific trait.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any alteration in the sequence of DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of choosing a few organisms with desirable traits to serve as the parents of the next generation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of technologies that humans use to alter the genetic instructions of an organism by substituting DNA molecules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A collection of fossils used to represent Earth's history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which the organisms that are best adapted to a specific environment survive and produce more offspring than organisms that are not as well adapted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determining the order of past events without determining absolute age.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Length of time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Families sharing a set of similar characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any one of many single-celled organisms without a distinct nucleus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The kingdom of organisms that are mostly multicellular, have cell walls made of chitin, and are heterotrophic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nonliving particle of protein and genetic material that reproduces by invading the cell of a living organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism that invades the body, causing disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A substance made of weakened, killed, or partial pathogens and designed to protect the body from future invasions of that pathogen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Medicine that inhibits the growth of bacteria.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Flattened structure attached to stem where photosynthesis occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main stalk of a plant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Product of a plant that contains seeds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism in the early stages of development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specialized cells that control the opening and closing of the pores on the surface of a leaf.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A chemical produced in the endocrine glands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Food that is grown.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The organ that enables nutrients and oxygen to pass from the mother's blood to the fetus, and waste products to pass from the fetus to the mother's blood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exchange of information between organs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A substance that has an effect when introduced to the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Compound made of fatty acid molecules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Large organ involved in neutralizing toxins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cell that results from the joining of the egg and sperm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unborn, developing young of an animal during the later stages of development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A condition, other than injury, that prevents the body from working as it should.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A molecule found on the outer surfaces of cells that the immune system recognizes as either part of the body or an outside invader.</p> Signup and view all the answers