A standard or baseline used for comparison in an experiment.
control
What process is the reverse/opposite of photosynthesis?
cellular respiration
An organism's ability to survive, reproduce, and pass on its genetic material to the next generation.
fitness
What chemical property causes water to stick to itself?
cohesion
What are the only possible alleles for O blood type?
ii
If I have multiple of an organism or individual, the best ecology term for this would be...
population
What are the chances of a red flower in simple dominance in generation 3 if the parents are heterozygous dominant?
75%
The male plant reproductive part in angiosperms.
Stamen
By utilizing the green pigment chlorophyll, it captures sunlight and converts carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen, providing the primary energy source for nearly all life on Earth.
When your body gets too hot, the brain's hypothalamus triggers sweating to cool the skin; when cold, it triggers shivering to generate muscle heat. This is an example of....
A ___________ solution has a higher concentration of solutes (like salt or sugar) outside the cell than inside the cell.
Hypertonic
A metabolic process that generates adenosine triphosphate (ATP) without using oxygen.
anaerobic
A permanent change in the DNA or RNA sequence of an organism or virus.
mutation
An evolutionary remnant of a body part or organ that was fully functional in an organism's ancestors but has lost much or all of its original function over time.
vestigial structure
A blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the body’s tissues back to the heart.
Vein
A microscopic, single-celled reproductive unit used by plants like ferns and mosses to reproduce.
spore
What artery is blocked during a heart attack?
Coronary artery
3
Acting as a biological "protein factory," it reads genetic instructions from messenger RNA (mRNA) and links amino acids together to build the proteins that living organisms need to function.
Ribosome