Genetics
DNA/RNA
Evolution
Classification
Plants
100
A gene whose effect will not alway be evident.
What is a recessive gene.
100
The building blocks of both DNA and RNA.
What are nucleotides.
100
The gradual change in an organism over time.
What is evolution.
100
The two groups into which Aristotle classified all living things.
What is plants and animals.
100
The outer, waxy "skin" of a plant.
What is the cuticle.
200
The effect or appearance caused by a gene.
What is phenotype.
200
The structure of a DNA molecule is described this way.
What is a double helix.
200
The idea that the organisms that are on the Earth today are here because they fit best.
What is natural selection. (survival of the fittest)
200
The broadest of all the taxa of classification.
What is a domain.
200
The system of tubes that transport substances through some plants.
What is a vascular system.
300
An offspring that is the result of crossing parents with differing traits.
What is a hybrid.
300
The nitrogenous base that pairs with Cytosine in a DNA molecule.
What is Guanine
300
An addaptive quality in which an organism acts or looks like another in order to best survive.
What is mimicry.
300
The taxa in which the members can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species.
300
Two characteristics that today's plants share with the earliest green algae.
What is 1. Cell wall of cellulose 2. Cell plate 3. Store food as starch
400
An offspring that has different genes for a particular trait.
What is heterozygous.
400
The nucleic acid that is involved in heredity.
What is DNA
400
Structures that were once used by our ancestors that are no longer useful in us.
What are vestigial structures.
400
The man who developed the classification system that we use today.
Who is Linnaeus.
400
The vascular tissue that carries food from the leaves down to the rest of the plant.
What is phloem.
500
An alternate form of a gene.
What is an allele.
500
The type of RNA that carries the coded message from the nucleus to the ribosomes for protein synthesis.
What is m-RNA or messenger RNA
500
Structures that are similar in structure in different organisms, but have different functions/uses. (indicated a common ancestor)
What are homologous structures.
500
The method of giving all living things a two-word, Latin name.
What is binomial nomenclature
500
Two of the parts of a typical seed.
What is 1. Seed coat 2. Embryo 3. Nutrients
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