Heredity
A type of cell division that occurs in sexually reproducing organisms in which DNA is replicated once, but two rounds of cell division occur.
What is Meiosis?
This enzyme is responsible for unwinding the DNA double helix at the origin of replication site in preparation for DNA replication.
What is Helicase?
Anatomical features that do not have a function in a living organism but may have served a purpose in an ancestor of the organism.
What are Vestigial Structures?
A change in an organism's environment that triggers a response form the organism.
What is a Stimulus?
Mr. Gardner's dog is very nice and rather adorable. The opposite of this Greek god for which he is named.
What is Hades?
The condition in which a cell only has one copy of a chromosome instead of the typical number of two copies.
What is Monosomy?
The enzyme that transcribes a DNA sequence into RNA molecules
What is RNA Polymerase?
The process through which unrelated species that live in similar environments evolve similar adaptations.
What is Convergent Evolution?
Organisms that can produce organic molecules from inorganic molecules using energy from photons or from other inorganic molecules.
What are Autotrophs?
Mr. Gardner has been to every state in the US. Aside from these two.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
This occurs when chromosomes do separate properly during anaphase of meiosis.
What is nondisjunction?
A sequence of adenine nucleotides that is added to the 3' end of eukaryotic mRNAs.
What is the 3' Poly-A Tail?
Characteristics that set a clade apart from other organisms and are evidence of the common ancestry of the members of the clade.
What are Shared Derived Characteristics?
A relationship where competing species use resources available to them in their habitat differently.
What is Niche Partitioning?
Mr. Gardner comes from a long line of awesome biology teachers with cool life stories. For example, his biology teacher, Mr. Queentry, worked with this celebrity at an arcade in high school.
Who is Eminem?
A visual representation of the chromosomes in a cell arranged by size in homologous pairs.
What is a karyotype?
A cluster of genes with a common function under the control of a common promoter.
What is an Operon?
A hypothesis that proposes that evolutionary change has long periods of little or no change with isolated periods of rapid change and speciation.
What is Punctuated Equilibrium?
A group of interacting populations living in the same habitat.
What is a community?
Mr. Gardner moved to Florida in 2022 from this state.
What is Michigan?
In the cross AABbCcDd X AaBBCcDD what is the probability of producing an offspring with the AaBbCcDd genotype?
What is 1/16?
Proteins around which DNA is packaged into chromosomes.
What are Histones?
Reproductive barriers that prevent the formation of a zygote.
What is Gametic Isolation?
This type of growth occurs in a population which experiences no limiting factors to the population size.
What is Exponential Growth?
This was Mr. Gardner's favorite subject in school. Hint: it was NOT Biology.
What is History?