Structure/Function
Structure (shape) determines this
What is function (job)?
This system's main function is to get rid of waste
What is the excretory system?
Any biotic factor that affects carrying capacity
What is predators or prey or hunting?
A mutation in DNA wherein a base is added to the sequence
What is an insertion?
The base pairs of RNA
Homologous structures come from a common ancestor, could have different functions, but they display
What is similar structures? (varied answers accepted so long as the meaning is correct)
The respiratory system and this other system work together to provide body cells with oxygen
What is the circulatory system?
A human action that throws off the balance of the carbon cycle
What is deforestation or urbanization or pollution or combustion or etc?
Without this species, an ecosystem will gradually collapse
What is keystone species?
Abiotic factors in an ecosystem
What is temperature, sunlight, soil quality, water quantity, nitrogen/carbon amount, etc?
Transcription is the process of copying DNA into
What is RNA?
An example of a negative feedback mechanism in the human body
What is body temperature or blood glucose level?
the process in which traits are selected for in a population through selective pressures
What is natural selection?
What we receive to prevent disease
What is a vaccine?
The number of cells produced from mitosis and from meiosis
What is 2 and 4?
when genes can be turned on or off due to environmental conditions allowing the cell to then produce a protein or stop the production of a protein
What is gene regulation?
The sum of all chemical processes
What is metabolism?
a commonly used genetic analysis tool in which restriction enzymes cut up DNA into smaller genes which are then added into a gel where an electrical current passes through it separating the genes by size
What is gel electrophoresis?
What is sexual reproduction?
One contains the same allele for a gene, and the other contains different alleles for a gene?
What are homozygous and heterozygous?
An explanation for how even a single mutation in DNA can be harmful to an organism
What is the central dogma? (explain that DNA codes for RNA and RNA codes for amino acids, and if even one changes, it could be a completely different protein being created, which disrupts functioning)
Your body's first line(s) of defense against pathogens
What is skin and mucus membranes and nasal hair/eyelashes?
Approximately 90% of energy is lost to the ecosystem according to this
What is the 10% rule?
What is photosynthesis?
The equations of photosynthesis and cell respiration
What is
photo: co2 + water (and sunlight) -> glucose + o2
cr: glucose + o2 -> co2 + water + ATP?