genetics
Known as the "father of genetics"
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This process allows some deep-sea organisms to produce light through chemical reactions in their bodies.
What is bioluminescence?
These tiny infectious agents are not living and must hijack a host cell to replicate.
What is a virus?
This federal U.S. agency is responsible for disease prevention and control.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?
This is the first stage of development after fertilization, when a single-cell zygote divides into multiple cells.
What is Cleavage?
This diagram is used to predict the genotype and phenotype combinations of offspring.
What is a Punnett Square?
This biome is found in coastal areas where freshwater from rivers meets saltwater from the ocean.
What is an estuary?
This type of microorganism is eukaryotic, can be unicellular or multicellular, and includes molds, yeasts, and mushrooms
What is fungi?
This is the study of how diseases spread and can be controlled in populations.
What is epidemiology?
This three-layered structure forms during gastrulation and gives rise to all tissues and organs.
What is the Germ Layer?
This type of inheritance occurs when both alleles are expressed equally in the phenotype
What is Codominance?
This ocean zone, also called the “twilight zone,” receives minimal light and is home to many bioluminescent creatures.
What is the mesopelagic zone?
This process occurs when bacteria evolve the ability to survive exposure to antibiotics that would normally kill them.
What is antibiotic resistance?
The practice of vaccinating a high percentage of a population to protect individuals who can't be vaccinated
What is herd immunity?
The outermost germ layer in an embryo that gives rise to the nervous system and skin.
What is the ectoderm?
This principle states that allele pairs separate during gamete formation
What is the Law of Segregation?
This organ, found in many marine animals like sharks, helps detect electric fields produced by the movements of prey.
What is the Ampullae of Lorenzini?
This German physician developed the gram stain to differentiate bacteria based on their cell wall structure.
Who is Hans Christian Gram?
The number of new cases of a disease in a specific population during a certain time period is known as this.
What is incidence?
The biological process by which a cell, tissue, or organism develops its shape
What is morphogenesis?
This DNA sequence helps position RNA polymerase during transcription initiation.
What is the TATA box?
This specialized feature of sea turtles helps them navigate across vast ocean distances.
What is magnetic navigation?
Gram-positive bacteria stain purple because of this thick component in their cell wall.
What is peptidoglycan?
This type of vaccine-preventable disease was declared eradicated in 1980 thanks to a global vaccination campaign.
What is Smallpox?
This process refers to when embryonic cells become specialized into distinct cell types with specific functions.
What is cell differentiation?