Unit A: Biological Diversity Study Guide
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Biological Diversity and its components
Y2Y Project| What is it?
Species
3 parts to biodiversity (ex. Ecosystem diversity)
Population and Community
Linnaean classification system| What is the order?
3 types of symbiotic relationships (pg 17)
Natural Selection
Niches
Resource partitioning
Heritable and non heritable characteristics
Variability
Discrete and continuous variation
Types of asexual reproduction (pg 30- 31)
Steps of sexual reproduction (pg 32)
Male and female parts of a flower
Advantages and disadvantages of asexual and sexual reproduction
Genetic code
DNA and its purpose
Chromosomes
Alleles
Dominant and recessive traits (know how to do punnet squares)
Hybrid and purebred
Incomplete dominance
Understand mitosis and meiosis (# of chromosomes at the end of each -in a
human)
Difference between extirpated and extinct, threatened and endangered (pg 59)
Biotechnology
Genetic engineering
Artificial insemination
Cloning
Difference between In vitro fertilization in-situ conservation and ex-situ
conservation