Air Pressure and Weather
High pressure systems are characterized by this type of air.
What is cold air?
The nucleic acid is contains all the genetic information
What is DNA?
This process results in diploid somatic cells
What is mitosis?
This scientist is often credited with the theory of evolution/natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
Atmospheric concentrations of this greenhouse gas have been increasing since the industrial revolution.
What is CO2 (Carbon dioxide)?
What is rising?
This type of gene, can be thought of as the opposite as recessive.
What is dominant?
This process results in haploid daughter cells (reproductive).
What is meiosis?
What is natural selection/survival of the fittest?
This is the type of clam we studies microplastics in this year
What is a softshell clam?
Air flows from areas of _______ pressure to ________ pressure.
What is high to low?
AA or aa can be described as this.
What is homozygous?
This phase is the one cells spend most of their time in.
What is interphase?
This type of trait can be passed on to future generations?
What is a heritable trait?
This is a picture of an organisms chromosomes arranged from the largest to smallest.
What is a karyotype?
This effect is responsible for the spiraling effect in weather systems.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
These two processes transform DNA into proteins
What are transcription and translation?
What is metaphase?
This winged insect served as an experimental model to lend evidence to Darwin's theory of natural selection.
What is the peppered moth?
This is an example of an organism that reproduces asexually.
Yeast/starfish
This tool is used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
DNA is made up of these base pairs
What are adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine?
This process is used in asexual reproduction.
What is mitosis?
What are embryological development, the fossil record, genes(transposons/amino acids), and homologous structures.
Rock pocket mice evolved because of this
What are volcanic eruptions/lava flows?