Cells
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is a type of information that that can make an organism change its behavior.
Stimuli
What is the thing that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood called?
Red blood cell
What part of the plant cell stores energy from the sun?
What is biology the study of?
What does the rough ER do?
The rough ER is involved with the production, folding, quality control and despatch of some proteins.
Animals with more successful behavior tend to survive and have more of ____.
What vessels take blood into the heart? What vessels take blood away from the heart?
Veins carry blood back to the heart. Arteries carry blood away from the heart.
What is photosynthesis?
A chemical process that occurs in plants, algae, and some types of bacteria, when they are exposed to sunlight.
What is evolution
Evolution is the process of species becoming different over time through natural processes. It explains why species change and become new species or disappear.
What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?
Mitosis, the process of making new body cells. Meiosis is the type of cell division that creates egg and sperm cells.
How did animal behavior evolve?
Animal behavior evolved through natural selection, where the behaviors that increased an individual's chances of survival and reproduction were more likely to be passed on to future generations.
What is considered the greatest upside for designer babies?
Preventing genetic disease
What does GMO do to food?
A GMO is a type of food created by altering the genetic makeup of crops. This process can be done to produce crops with specific desirable traits, such as increased resistance to pests, herbicides, and environmental stress. The aim of GMO foods is to increase food production and improve the overall quality of food.
What type of reproduction involves a single parent and offspring that are genetically identical to the parent?
Asexual reproduction
What is the Krebs cycle?
A series of chemical reactions in living things in which acetic acid or a related substance is oxidized to produce energy which is stored in ATP.
What are the five animal kingdoms?
Animal, plant, fungi, protist, and monera.
What is paleoanthropology?
Paleoanthropology is the study of human evolution and the fossil record of human ancestors and their relatives.
What makes a leaf turn yellow?
Not enough sunlight.
Name me three jobs of a cell
To divide. To help you grow. To be bone, blood, nerve, muscle cells. To form tissue. To form organs/ To heal your wounds
Give me 8 parts of a cell
Biologist think innate behaviors (instincts) are hard-wired into what system of the animal?
The nervous system
What four things is DNA made out of?
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
What was Mendel's experiment and what did it prove?
In the experiment, Mendel cross-bred pea plants with different traits to study the inheritance patterns of traits from generation to generation. He found that traits are passed on from parents to offspring in a predictable way, which became the foundation of the science of genetics.
What is the term for the process of natural selection that results in adaptations to an organism's environment?
Ecological adaptation