The movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
What is diffusion?
100
Another name for light independent reactions?
What is Calvin Cycle?
100
The first phase in mitosis, during which chromosomes become visible and the centrioles separate and take up positions on the opposite side of the nucleus.
What is prophase?
100
Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study this.
What is the inheritance of traits?
100
A group of three sequential nitrogen bases of an mRNA molecule.
What is codon?
200
A type of cell that contains a nucleus.
What is eukaryote?
200
An organism that can make their own food.
What is an autotroph?
200
The period of time in which a cell grows and prepares for division.
What is interphase.
200
A diagram showing the gene combinations that might result from a genetic cross.
What is Punnett square?
200
The nitrogen base that is found in RNA and not in DNA.
What is uracil?
300
A structure that uses coded instructions from the nucleus to make proteins.
What is a ribosome?
300
A product of the Calvin cycle.
What is high energy sugars.
300
A disorder in which some cells have lost their ability to control their growth rate.
What is cancer?
300
Organisms that have two different alleles for a particular trait.
What is homozygous?
300
Nitrogen bases that contain two rings of carbon.
What is purines?
400
A term that refers to cells having different jobs in an organism.
What is cell specialization?
400
A type of pigment in plant cells that reflects green light.
What is chlorophyll?
400
A series of events that cells go through as they grow and divide.
What is the cell cycle?
400
States that some alleles are recessive and that others are dominant.
What is principle of dominance?
400
A specific sequence of nucleotides that marks the end of a gene in eukaryotes.
What is termination signal
500
The diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
500
The products that are used in the overall reactions for photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide, water, and light.
500
The phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes line up in the middle of the dividing cell.
What is metaphase?
500
A black and white offspring kitten from a black cat and a white cat.
What is codominance?
500
The process for assembling polypeptides (proteins) from information encoded in mRNA.