Evolution
Do you even lift, bro? This oft-confused term is defined as the number of offspring an organism produces, which in turn live to reproduce.
What is fitness?
These types of factors, such as sunlight and water availability, are important because they shape living communities.
This is the source of the energy that is captured in photosynthesis.
What is the sun?
This one or that one? This is the term for different versions of a trait.
What is an allele?
Hmmm, needs more salt. This is the term for an extracellular solution that will cause water to flow into a cell through osmosis.
What is a hypotonic solution?
Choices, choices...this must be present in a population and impact fitness for natural selection to have an effect.
What is variation?
This is the main measure of how much energy is entering an ecosystem.
What is primary productivity?
These large protein complexes are responsible for capturing photons and using them to energize electrons.
What are photosystems I and II?
I'm just, y'know, really shy. This is the allele that will be "hidden" by the presence of other alleles.
What is the recessive allele?
Keep going, Sisyphus! Moving molecules "uphill" against a concentration gradient requires this type of transport.
What is active transport?
Evolution is formally defined as the change of this within a population.
This type of interaction positively impacts the fitness of both populations involved.
What is mutualism?
During this phase of the Calvin cycle, electrons energized in the LDR are used to energize newly fixed carbon.
What is sugar reduction?
You go this way, I'll go this way. This law of genetics describes how maternal and paternal alleles for a gene go through meiosis.
What is the Law of Segregation?
Go with the flow! This specific type of transport is the simple movement of particles from high to low concentration.
What is diffusion?
It's chaos! This driver of evolution is impossible to predict because it is entirely due to random chance.
What is genetic drift?
These types of organisms are important because they recycle minerals and other nutrients within an ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
Although it does produce some usable ATP energy, the main purpose of this stage of cellular respiration is to harvest high energy electrons that can be used in the ETC.
What is the Krebs cycle?
I'm just expressing myself! This is the term for the physical appearance of a trait, or the version of a trait that is expressed.
What is phenotype?
This specific type of transport is exemplified by protons flowing through ATP synthase as a result of the electron transport chain.
What is facilitated diffusion?
This process will sometimes result from evolutionary changes in separated populations, assuming that enough genetic differences accumulate over time.
What is speciation?
This type of biome will form when there is plentiful, yearlong sunlight but strong seasonality in rainfall.
What is tropical grassland/savanna?
Bummer! This inefficient metabolic pathway can be used in anaerobic conditions, but only for short periods in our own bodies.
What is [lactic acid] fermentation?
I'm makin' copies here! This is the term for making an RNA copy of a gene.
What is transcription?
Daily challenge! This is the term for the situation where molecules are moving in equal direction across a membrane, leading to no net change in concentration.
What is dynamic equilibrium?