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Is polyploidy more common in plants or animals?
Plants
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How many chromosomes are found in human gametes?
23
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What are the building blocks of DNA?
Nucleotides
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What color are gram (+) bacteria?
Purple
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In mitosis, how does the number of chromosomes in the parent cell compare to the chromosomes in the daughter cells?
Same amount
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Which organelle converts sugar into energy?
Mitochondria
200
Amino acids are the building blocks of what?
Protein
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In what organisms does alcoholic fermentation occur?
yeast & some bacteria
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First person to look at cells underneath the microscope
Robert Hooke
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An RNA virus that uses reverse transcriptase
Retrovirus
300
What is the first stage of mitosis?
Prophase
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A genotype that looks like "Tt" is described as?
Heterozygous
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Protein that can cause infection or disease
Prion
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What are the 2 types of stem cells?
Embryonic and adult
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Dormant bacterial cell able to survive for long periods of time
Endospore
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What is the largest taxonomic category?
Domain or kingdom
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What is the term used to describe energy added to inititate a reaction?
Activation energy
400
Viral reproductive cycle where the virus inserts its DNA into host cell and remains dormant
Lysogenic cycle
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What is the main function of the calvin cycle?
Make sugar (glucose)
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What is the process that occurs when a species evolves into a new species without a physical barrier separating populations?
Sympatric speciation
500
What is the role of spindle fibers?
Pull apart chromosomes
500
Name the correct pairings between nitrogenous bases in DNA and RNA
A-T G-C A-U
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Father of genetics
Gregor Mendel
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What does punctuated equilibrium mean?
rapid change followed by periods of no change
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What was the name of Darwin's famous book he wrote?
Origin of Species
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