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Make their own food/self-feeding. Plants & photosynthetic microbes
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| Eats other organisms. Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore. Animals and heterotrophic microbes |
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| Decomposes other organisms. Fungi and other decomposing microbes |
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| Diff between Autotrophs and Heterotrophs? |
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Autotrophs: Can make their own food (Producers)
Heterotrophs: Just consume their food (Consumers) |
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| What is a trophic level and how much energy is typically lost between the levels? |
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- Each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisma that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy.
- 90% is passed between levels |
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| What does the Ecological pryamid look like? |
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Highest- lowest rank:
1)Tertiary consumers
2)Secondary consumers
3) Primary Consumers
4) Primary Producers |
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| What are the two major groups of an ecosystem? |
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| 1) Biotic components/ the living & 2) Abiotic compnents/ non-living |
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| What type of bird nests are harvested for bird nest soup? |
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| What's the % of earth land area that is covered by desert? |
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| How do Bactrian amels obtain water? |
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| How do locusts find food? |
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| They eat their own body weight and eat grass, grains, leaves, of plants, etc |
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| How do cacti in the Atacama Desert obtain moisture? |
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| Fog provides dew and water to the cacti |
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| How does parasitic fungus affect insects in the rainforest? |
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| In some cases they take over and kill off the insects; like ants |
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| What is "slash and burn" agiculture? |
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| It's a widley used method of growing food in which wild or forested land is clear cut and any remaining vegetation burned. The resulting layer of ash provides the newly cleared land with nutrient- rich layer to help fertilize crops |
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| What are the major threats to biodiversity that are worldwide? |
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| Insects, animals, plants, fungi, Bacteria, Protista |
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| Overuse of antibioticcs can cause what? |
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| Miller Urey experiment, which molecules were used to approximate the early earth atmosphere? |
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| Hydrogen, ammonia, eater, and methane |
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| Pelvic bones in whales and wings on an ostrich are examples of what structure? |
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True or Flase:
Behavior can be encoded in genetic material |
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| Pavolovian response is an example of what? |
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| the thoracic cavity is separated from teh abdominal caivty by the what? |
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| Blood vessels are lined with what? |
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| the pancreas secretes what? |
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| The gall bladder stores what? |
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| Tight junction refers to which type of tissue? |
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| In relaiton to the human body, the opposite of dorsal is what? |
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| Cells set in a noncellular matrix describes which type of human tissue? |
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| What is the order of events or structures for an egg as it develops in the ovary? |
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| Follicle --> ovulation --> corpus luteum |
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| Normal implantation occurs in the what? |
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| Exchange of molecules between a mother's blood and the blood of a fetus, takes place in the what? |
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| Antagonistic pairs refers to the what? |
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| Difficult for cilia to remove |
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| An inversion layer forms as a result of what? |
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| the extreme physical limits of the earth's biosphere are inhabited by what? |
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| What's the proper order of classificatino levels? |
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| Which proton and neutron count is that of an isotope of the element carbon? |
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| Sodium and chlorine atoms form what bonds? |
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| using soap to wash away oil is an example of what molecular process? |
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| A compound light microscope is best used to study objects in which size range? |
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| In the endosymbiotic theory to cell evolution, mitochondria... |
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| live symbiotically within another cell |
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| Cystic fibrosis isa genetic disorder related to the failure of what? |
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| Active transport requires what? |
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| Meiosis occurs in what cells? |
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| In a heterozygous-heterozygous, single trait genetic cross,w hat is the ratio of offspring exhibiting dominant charactersitics to offspring exhibiting recessive characteristics? |
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| chromosomes in egg and sperm cells are what? |
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| Hershey- Chase experiemtn was dependant on the proper use of what? |
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| vesicles were pulled up microtubules by what? |
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