Genetics
Enzyme that produces a replicated stand of DNA
What is DNA polymerase?
Example is plants and animals at the base of a mountain are very different from the species at the top
What is biogeography?
A feature that freed reptiles from dependence on water for reproduction
What is amniotic egg?
The prokaryotic group that tends to inhabit extreme environments
What is Archaea?
Organisms designated producers obtain their energy from
What is the sun?
This occurs when sister chromatids fail to separate in meiosis
What is nondisjunction?
Any characteristic that makes an organism better suited to its environment
What is an adaptation?
What is lack true tissues?
a virus that infects bacteria
What is a bacteriophage?
According to NASA this percentage of the human population that lives within 60 miles of a coastline
What is over 50%?
Term used to describe a location of a gene on a chromosome
What is locus or loci?
A severe reduction in the size of a population or the number of alleles in a population due to a natural disaster or dramatic event
What is a bottleneck?
Polar bears are facing the global warming crisis more than most animals because
What is polar ice melting?
A virus that can transcribe its RNA into the DNA genome of its host
What is a retrovirus?
A natural water reservoir just below the surface of the Earth
What is an aquifer?
Person studied DNA using crystallographic techniques to provide evidence for the double helix structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Process that can rapidly offset the effects of genetic isolation when two populations come into secondary contact
What is gene flow?
Scientific name for the fruit fly
What is Drosophila melanogaster?
Gram-positive or Gram-negative refers to differences in
What is cell walls?
This occurs when too many nutrients enter body of water causing algae bloom, blocking sun, causing plant death, decreasing oxygen levels, and can kill off animals
What is eutrophication?
The most common allele in a population
What is wild type?
The reproduction of individuals with favorable genetic traits that survive environmental change because of those traits, leading to evolutionary change
What is natural selection?
Mobile stage of the cnidarian life cycle is the ________ stage
What is medusa?
The bacteria that caused the Great Plague of Europe also known as the Black Death
What is Yersinia Pestis?
The process by which chemicals (or toxins) such as insecticides become more concentrated in the bodies of organisms as they pass along the food chain
What is biomagnification?