The most important group of organisms in an ecosystem; at the bottom of an energy pyramid.
What are producers.
100
This organ is the body's first line of defense against invading microorganisms.
What is the skin?
100
This organelle produces energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
100
A person who is heterozygous for a recessive genetic disorder.
Who is a carrier?
100
The process in the cytoplasm where RNA is made into protein.
What is translation?
200
In an ecological energy pyramid, the "lost" energy is converted into this.
What is heat?
200
Acquired immunity involves the production of these "fighters" that are made by the B cells to target specific invaders.
What are antibodies?
200
This protein speeds up a chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy.
What is an enzyme?
200
The genotype of a person who is homozygous recessive for the trait of widow's peak (use W).
What is ww?
200
The process that makes RNA from DNA.
What is transcription?
300
In a food chain or food web, producers are followed by this group of organisms.
What are consumers?
300
Antibodies are only effective in treating diseases caused by this pathogen.
What are bacteria?
300
Protein synthesis happens in this organelle/on this structure.
What is the ribosome?
300
The offspring of one red flower and one white flower are white, red, and pink. The mode of inheritance is:
What is incomplete dominance?
300
The complementary strand of DNA that is replicated from a strand with the sequence CGATCTAGG.
What is GCTAGATCC ?
400
These 2 processes help cycle oxygen and carbon dioxide in the environment; one only takes place in plants, the other in both plants and animals.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
400
Helper T cells (a type of lymphocyte) are destroyed in this infectious disease.
What is AIDS?
400
All cells contain this, a jelly-like substance that holds the cell parts in place.
What is the cytoplasm?
400
In rabbits, the allele for brown fur is dominant to the allele for white fur. If two rabbits that are both heterozygous are mated, their offspring will have this phenotype.
What is 75% brown fur, 25% white fur?
400
Use your amino acid chart to determine the protein for the following mRNA sequence.
UUACGCUGGAUC
What is Leu-Arg-Trp-Ile?
500
This is what makes it possible for organisms to survive even during environmental changes.
What is biodiversity?
500
These are the 2 types of white blood cells in the body's specific immune response.
What are B and T cells?
500
The "NA" in DNA stands for this, a type of macromolecule found in all cells.
What is nucleic acids?
500
The diagram on the board, shows one of Mendel's 3 laws.
What is the law of independent assortment?
500
DNA and RNA are macromolecules made of these monomers.