Cell Structure and Function
A small cell that lacks a nucleus and has no membrane-bound organelles
What is a prokaryote?
Type of cell division that produces sperm and eggs
What is meiosis?
The most closely related of the following species: Mus musculus (house mouse), Peromyscus maniculatus (deer mouse), Peromyscus crinitus (canyon mouse), and Tamias striatus (Eastern chipmunk)
What are Peromyscus maniculatus and Peromyscus crinitus (deer mouse and canyon mouse)?
The maintenance of a constant body temperature is an example of this.
What is homeostasis?
The organisms that eat producers.
What are primary consumers or herbivores?
Type of viral life cycle in which viral DNA is incorporated into the host's genome and lies dormant for a time
What is the lysogenic phase of the viral life cycle?
Type of mutation in which the DNA sequence GAATTC is converted to GACTTC
What is a point mutation or a substitution mutation?
Term for the 2 part naming system of identifying organisms by a scientific name consisting of their genus and species
What is binomial nomenclature?
The products of photosynthesis
What are glucose and oxygen?
An increase in predators would likely have this effect on a prey population
What is decrease?
Type of cell transport in which substances are moved against a concentration gradient using ATP energy
What is active transport?
Terms that describe the synthesis of 1) mRNA and 2) protein
What are 1) transcription and 2) translation?
Term used to describe structures inherited from a common ancestor, such as the bones of whale flippers, bat wings, and amphibian legs.
What is homologous?
The monomer of a protein
What is an amino acid?
Many species of fish rely on algae as a source of food. What effect would overfishing have on the algae population?
The phase of the cell cycle in which DNA replication occurs
What is S phase?
The complementary mRNA sequence that would be transcribed from the following DNA template: 5'-AACGTC-3'
What is 3'-UUGCAG-5'?
What are derived characters?
The mechanism by which enzymes catalyze reactions
What is lowering the activation energy?
Type of symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other is harmed
What is parasitism
Organelle responsible for destroying old, worn-out cell parts or invading pathogens
What is the lysosome?
The chance of a cross between a parent heterozygous for round seeds and a parent with wrinkled seeds yielding offspring with round seeds, assuming that round seeds are dominant to wrinkled seeds.
What is 1/2 or 50%?
Type of genetic drift in which allele frequencies change as a result of a chance event that wipes out most of a population
What is the bottleneck effect?
Living plant vessel responsible for the transport of sugars throughout the plant
What is phloem?
Examples of pioneer species in ecological succession
What are mosses and lichens?