Concepts in Biology

What is life? What must something have to be alive?

What is Homeostasis

What is Organisation

What is Metabolism

What are the two categories of Metabolism?

What is Evolution

What is Reproduction

What is pollen?

Where is pollen found?

How do flowers reproduce?

How would using animals to deliver pollen make reproduction more successful?

What does the animal get out of the deal?

Are pollen grains multi-cellular

Where does meiosis occur in a flower

What is a parasite?

What are the different categories of parasitic plants?

What happens if a plant can't produce their own carbon molecules?

How do parasites obtain resources from the host?

What is a Haustorium?

Example of the Striga Haustorium

Parasite attaches to the outside of the host plant and grows into the cortex of the host plant, where it searches for the host plants vessels

What is extreme parasitism?

Are parasitic plants all bad for the host

Why are plants Green?

What is a pigment?

How does pigment work?

Where is the chlorophyll situated in a plant?

Why do plants not use green light?

What do plants need to grow?

what is limiting plant growth if a plant recieves optimal amounts of light, water and nutrients

what are the three special groups of tissue

In which tissue do the cells continually divide?

What is the name given to plant tissue that remains embryonic

Where will you find Meristems

where are the primary meristems located

Why didn't the branches and the trunk of big trees come from meristems?

What is interminate growth?

Why are plants shaped the way they are?

What is evolution?

What does a phylogenic tree show

What is Darwin's theory of Evolution?

What is biological evolution?

What is a heritable trait?

What is an aquired trait?

Why does evolution occur in biological populations, not individuals?

What are the three ingredients for evolution?

What is reproductive success?

what are the 5 processes that act as the basic mechanisms for evolution

What is a mutation

What is migration/gene flow

What is sex/recombination?

What is genetic drift

What is natural selection?

What is adaptation?

What is the artificial selection?

What are sponges?

What are cnidarians?

What are Lophotrochozoans

What are the Ecdysozoans

Why are Echinoderms and chordates deuterostomes?

What do chordates have?

Are vertebrates chordates?

What are Gnathostomes

What are tetrapods

What are amniotes?

Are Mammals amniotes?