DNA
The macromolecule that carries genetic material.
What is nucleic acid?
Having two identical copies of an allele (GG or gg).
What is homozygous?
English naturalist who developed the theory of natural selection after his voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A type of population growth that grows quickly at first and then levels off.
What is logistic growth?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria.
Sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base make this up.
What are the parts of a DNA nucleotide?
The father of genetics who experimented with pea plants as an Austrian monk.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Structures with little or no function to an organism.
What are vestigial structures?
The maximum population that a given environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The first macromolecule used for quick energy.
What are carbohydrates?
The shape of a molecule of DNA
What is a double helix?
The physical trait that is seen in an organism.
What is phenotype?
What is divergent evolution?
Competition, predation, parasitism, and disease are examples of this type of limiting factor.
What is density dependent?
OR
What is biotic?
Oxygen + Glucose -> Carbon Dioxide + Water + ATP
What is cellular respiration?
The process of mRNA being made from DNA
What is transcription?
A type of mutation that changes a single codon.
What is a point mutation?
A selection of traits that aren't necessarily good for survival fitness, but help an organism find a mate.
What is sexual selection?
A type of symbiosis where one species is benefitted and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Uncontrolled cell division.
What is cancer?
What is meiosis?
A type of inheritance pattern where both traits are expressed in different locations, such as a flower with both red and white spots being produce from the cross between a red and a white parental flower.
What is codominance?
Similar features that have evolved from unrelated species, but have the same purpose.
What are analogous structures?
Measures the number of individual organisms living in a defined space.
What is population density?
The percent of energy obtained from the previous trophic level in a pyramid.
What is 10%?