Genetics
The small units of DNA.
What are Genes?
What converts energy into ATP in a cell?
The mitochondria
What is a protein?
An organic compound made mainly of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
The removal of trees in the Amazon to make room for farms is what type of land destruction?
Deforestation
What are resources cannot be replenished?
Nonrenewable
What are mutations?
Mutations are Permanent changes in DNA.
The place where the cell stores water, fat and proteins?
The Vacuole
A substance that does the dissolving to another substance?
A solvent
What term describes the soil being taken from its source by wind, water, or ice?
Erosion
What is a relationship in which both species involved benefit?
Mutualism
Dominant trait vs. Recessive trait?
A dominant trait is an inherited characteristic that appears in an offspring from a dominant allele.
Recessive traits can be carried in a persons genes without appearing in that person.
What can be considered the "gate" around the cell?
The cell membrane
A compound made of primarily carbon atoms is ?
An organic compound
What is acid precipitation?
Rain, sleet, snow, or other forms of precipitation that contain acids from air pollution.
What is a relationship in which one species benefits while harming the other species.
What is the physical appearance or characteristic of an organism?
A Phenotype
What is a golgi apparatus?
Part of the cell is responsible for packaging and transporting substances made in the cell?
What stores and transfers information from DNA, makes proteins, and acts as an enzyme?
RNA (Ribonucleic acid)
What is a fossil fuel? (Definition)
A Nonrenewable resource that formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived long ago.
What is the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
DJ - What are different variations of the SAME gene?
Alleles
What makes a prokaryotic different from a eukaryotic cell.
It has no organized nucleus.
Unlike most lipids.. This lipid is NOT made of fatty acid, but instead, carbon.
It is a steroid.
DJ Coal, oil, and gas are all examples of what?
Fossil Fuels
DJ - What can be found on any trophic level, they eat both producers and consumers?
An Omnivore