Unit 6
This is the sugar formed in RNA
What is ribose?
He is known as the father of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
These are the levels in a food chain
What are Trophic levels?
This molecule is the main energy currency of the cell (Unit 3)
What is ATP?
These are monomers of proteins (unit 1)
What are amino acids?
This process makes RNA from DNA
What is transcription
Random change in allele frequencies
What is genetic drift?
This model shows population growth with no limits
What is exponential growth
Proteins are made in this organelle (unit 2)
What is the ribosome
This gas is taken in during photosynthesis and released during cellular respiration (unit 3)
What is carbon dioxide?
What is the top operon?
This equation is used to model populations not evolving
What is the Hardy-Weinberg equation
Bees and flowers show this type of relationship
What is mutualism?
This process creates genetic variation in gametes (unit 5)
What is crossing over OR meiosis?
This kind of feedback loop helps maintain homeostasis, like body temperature (unit 4)
What is negative feedback?
A mutation that changes one amino acid is called this
What is a missense mutation?
Two species form from one original species
What is speciation?
These are natural pathways for elements like carbon?
What are biogeochemical cycles?
The movement of water from high to low concentration across a membrane (unit 2)
What is osmosis?
This inheritance patter shows a blend of traits, like pink flowers from red and white parents (unit 5)
What is incomplete dominance?
This lab technique separates DNA fragments by size
What is gel electrophoresis?
These diagrams show evolutionary relationships (there's 2)
What are phylogenetic trees or cladograms
Burning fossil fuels adds this greenhouse gas to the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
This process uses mRNA to build a proteins (Unit 6)
What is translation?
This term describes failure of chromosomes to separate during meiosis (unit 5)
What is nondisjunction?