key words

• species

  • a group of organisms with similiar morphology and physiology that can breed together to produce fertile offspring
• adaptation

  • the evolutionary process whereby organisms become better able to live in its habitat
• niche


  the role of an organism within its community
• evolution

  • the allele frequency of a population change over time due to natural selection
• phylogeny

  • the representation of the evolutionary history and relationships between groups of organisms
• proteomics

  • the study of proteins- size, shape and amino acid sequence
• taxonomy

  • the system of classification
  • organisms are named and put into groups based on similarities and differences
• community

  • all of the organisms of different species that live in the same habitat and interact with eachother
• enzymes

  • are proteins
  • carry out metabolic reactions
  • can be intracellular or extracellular
  • increase the rate of a reaction
  • by lowering the activation energy