chemistry of life
This element is the basis of all organic molecules.
What is carbon?
The organelle where ATP is primarily produced.
What is the mitochondrion?
The energy currency of the cell.
What is ATP?
Different versions of the same gene.
What are alleles?
Darwin's mechanism for evolution.
What is natural selection?
Water's ability to stick to other substances is called this.
What is adhesion?
The selectively permeable boundary of the cell.
What is the plasma membrane?
Photosynthesis occurs in these organelles.
What are chloroplasts?
Mendel's law stating that allele pairs separate during gamete formation.
What is the Law of Segregation?
The role of an organism in its environment.
What is a niche?
The building blocks of proteins
What are amino acids?
This organelle modifies and packages proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
The first step of cellular respiration.
What is glycolysis?
The process of making mRNA from DNA.
What is transcription?
Random changes in allele frequencies in small populations.
What is genetic drift?
The type of bond that holds water molecules together.
What is an H bond?
Movement of water across a membrane.
What is osmosis?
The stage of respiration producing most ATP.
What is the electron transport chain?
Exchange of chromosome segments during meiosis.
What is crossing over?
A relationship in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
This process joins monomers together by removing water.
The model describing membrane structure.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
The final electron acceptor in aerobic respiration.
What is oxygen?
The principle stating allele frequencies remain constant in the absence of evolutionary forces.
What is the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
When unrelated species evolve similar traits due to similar environments.
What is convergent evolution?