Genetics
A pea plant has the genotype Tt, what is the phenotype?
What is tall?
Natural selection acts directly on
What is phenotypes?
Level of an energy pyramid that contains the most available energy
What is the producer?
Function of central vacuoles in plants
What is it stores water and maintains turgor pressure?
A molecule that is the final electron acceptor in the ETC (aerobic repiration)
What is oxygen?
A cross between a red flower produce pink flowers.
What is incomplete dominance?
The wing of a bird and the arm of a human
What are homologous structures?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unharmed.
What is commensalism?
A function of the Golgi Apparatuus
What is modifying and packaging proteins?
During the calvin cycle, what happens to CO2
What is it is fixed into organic sugar molecules?
A nitrogenous base found in RNA
What is uracil?
Most likely to cause a decrease in genetic variation in a population
What is genetic drift? (affects a small population)
A process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
What is photosynthesis?
An organic molecule that is the main source of quick energy for cellular processes
What is monosaccharides?
Net gain of ATP during glycolysis
What is 2 ATP?
Transcription takes place in the ____, while translation takes place in the __________.
What is nucleus and the cytoplasm?
According to the theory of evolution, all organisms share:
What is a common ancestor?
An organism that breaks down dead organic matter
What is a decomposer?
Describe the effect of a competitive inhibitor on an enzyme
What is it binds to the active site, blocking the substrate?
In a cell, the hydrolysis of ATP into ADP and inorganic phosphate
What is release energy for cellular work?
A mutation that involves insertion of a single nucleotide.
What is a frameshift mutation?
The formation of new species is known as
What is speciation?
What happens to the energy as it moves up the food chain?
What is it decreases by approximately 90%?
Carbon is able to to form diverse macromolecules because
What is it can form four covalent bonds?
An organism that makes it's own food using energy from inorganic chemicals
What is a chemoautotroph?