Genetics
Meiosis
Monitoring Earthquakes
Protein Synthesis
Earth's Crust
100
It is represented by a lower case letter in genetics.
What is a recessive allele?
100
The number of sex cells that are created from one regular cell.
What is four.
100
Describes the effects of an earthquake on people, buildings, and land at a given location.
What is the Mercalli scale?
100
Where protein synthesis starts.
What is the nucleus?
100
They are produced by compression stress force.
What is a reverse fault?
200
An organism that has two identical alleles.
What is heterozygous?
200
The number of chromosomes in a cell before it is divided.
What is 46?
200
Geologists know that earthquakes are likely.
What is whenever plate movement stores energy in the rock faults?
200
It carries a copy of the DNA code into the cytoplasm.
What is messenger RNA?
200
A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch.
What is an anticline?
300
Many genes joined together.
What are chromosomes?
300
Chromosome pairs separate and are distributed into these.
What are new sex cells?
300
The waves that arrive first.
What are P waves?
300
Molecules that carry amino acids and add them to the growing protein.
What is transfer RNA?
300
The rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other sideways.
What is a strike-slip fault?
400
An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.
What is a hybrid or heterozygous?
400
The portion of chromosomes that are in each sex cell.
What is half the chromosomes.
400
It records the ground movements caused by seismic waves.
What is a seismograph?
400
The pattern that determines the order in which amino acids are put together to form a protein.
What is the order of the bases?
400
They carry the energy of an earthquake away from the focus.
What are seismic waves?
500
Something that carry genes from parents to offspring.
What is chromosomes?
500
They separate the chromosomes in the cells.
What are centromeres?
500
It is most like a carpenter's level.
What is a tiltmeter?
500
The nitrogen base that is different between DNA and RNA.
What is uracil?
500
The point beneath Earth’s surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake.
What is a focus?
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