Elephant Vocabulary

2. refers to feeding or nutrition
4. the hereditary material in organisms
5. a group of various species that live in the same place
8. an organism's role in the environment
11. an energy carrying molecule that cells use
12. an animal that eats other consumers
15. a dna profile that is visualized as a pattern of bands on an agarose gel
17. a consumer that will eat plants or another consumer
19. a change in the frequency of a trait over time that helps individuals survive

1. the process by which competing species use the environment differently in a way that helps them coexist
3. a genotype with the same alleles
6. outside sources which affect an organism's ability to survive in a given environment
7. a genotype with 2 different alleles
9. organized DNA that contains genes
10. an animal that feeds on plants
11. non-living factors in an ecosystem
13. a variation of a gene
14. an important species in which other species largely depend on
16. the variety of life in an ecosystem
18. living factors of an ecosystem