Six Pack Labs
How many nucleotides or bases in DNA turn into one amino acid
What is 3?
Name the ELEMENT cycle that includes tree trunks, fossil fuels, climate change, and respiration?
What is the CARBON cycle?
Name the type of cell that can turn into other cells
What is a stem cell?
If dolphins and sharks do not have a recent common ancestor, why do they have the same shape?
They both evolved to glide through water - this is called convergent evolution
Name 3 things you can keep an eye out for, when reading a scientific graph
X axis label, Y axis label, Title, Upward or downward trend
We should save birds from hitting windows because they contribute to this - the variety of life in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
This process of copying the DNA occurs in both mitosis and meiosis
What is DNA replication?
Which level of organization is a group or layer of cells?
What is a tissue?
What is a way to help an inbred population like cheetahs or mountain lions become more resilient?
Introduce more genetic diversity by bringing in individuals from other populations
Which organ system regulates the homeostasis of water for our body?
What is the excretory system (kidneys and bladder)
What are the two ways that our body thermoregulates for homeostasis?
Shivering and Sweating. Also blood vessels can expand and contract
Name the chemical energy molecule that is created in cellular respiration
What is ATP?
Where does a plant cell get its energy for its regular cellular processes?
Trick answer: Cellular respiration! (plants do photosynthesis but burn their own sugars for energy)
Name the 2 ways to increase variation in DNA
What are mutations and sexual reproduction?
What is the word for cells becoming specialized (skin cell, nerve cell etc.), OR when a teacher assigns different things to different students?
Differentiation
Give an example of a negative feedback loop for homeostasis besides temperature
As blood glucose rises, we release insulin to bring it back down. (answers may vary)
Name the 4 types of organic molecules BESIDES Nucleic Acids (DNA and RNA)
Carbs, Fats, Proteins
Give an example of an error in cell division that causes an extra chromosome to go in a gamete
Down Syndrome or Trisomy 21
An error in this process can create changes in the offspring
What is meiosis?
Which 2 body systems interact when watching a horror movie, and your pulse increases?
Nervous and Circulatory. I would also accept Endocrine for adrenaline
Explain, in terms of DNA, why some people can make lactase, and some cannot
There is a REGULATORY or UPSTREAM region that tells the lactase gene when to express. Some people have a mutation in that region.
Which organism captures most of the world's carbon and produces most of the world's oxygen?
Phytoplankton or photosynthetic algae
Moving something across the cell membrane using energy, vs not using energy
What is Active vs Passive Transport?
If I have a species in one area how can I turn it into two different species?
Separate the species into two groups somehow and allow the two groups to "diverge"over time so that they don't mate with each other
Skin, Mucus, White Blood Cells, General Response, Specific Response, Helper T Cells, Inflammation, Fever