DNA and Protein Synthesis
The place in the cell where transcription takes place
What is the nucleus?
The process of naming and classifying organisms
What is taxonomy?
An animal that eats a second level consumer is called a
What is a tertiary consumer?
All animals are considered what because of how obtain energy.
Hetertroph
The application of science and biology to help improve human life and human problems is called
What is biotechnology?
The 3 letter sequence found on messenger RNA that determines an amino acid is a
What is a codon?
A dog breeder wanting to breed only his best dogs is using ___________
What is artificial selection?
Biomes consist of similar types of ____ around the world.
What are ecosystems?
Which body system is the trachea a part of?
What is the respiratory system?
The theory that states that the God of the Bible created the universe, but used evolutionary processes to do it.
What is Evolutionary Creationism (or Theistic evolution)
The process of assembling the amino acids together to form a polypeptide occurs in a step called
What is translation?
Placing wolves and dogs in some of the same categories due to shared characteristics is an example of
What is classification?
Charles Darwin is well known for his theory of _____________ _____________.
Animals with matching left and right sides are said to have which type of symmetry?
What is bilateral?
The type of bonds formed between complimentary nitrogen bases in a DNA molecule
What are hydrogen bonds?
Transcribe the following strand of DNA- CAT GTA
GTA CAT
The different necks of tortoises on the Galapagos that Darwin studied is an example of
What is an adaptation?
Several animals of the same species living together form a
What is a population?
The largest phyla in the animal kingdom is
What is arthropoda?
What molecule besides DNA is involved in transcription?
What is Messenger RNA (mRNA)
3 main differences between DNA and RNA
What is:
the sugar is different (deoxyribose vs ribose), DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded; RNA contains the base uracil, but DNA has thymine instead.
What helps an organism to be better suited to its environment?
Adaptation
Each level of an ecological pyramid is called a...
Trophic level
The 3 types of phyla containing worms are ______________, ____________, and ____________
What are
Annelida- segmented worms like earthworms
Platyhelminthes- flatworms
Nematoda- roundworms
Name a specific kingdom that only contains prokaryotes
What is archaebacteria or eubacteria?
The 3 parts of a nucleotide
What are:
nitrogen base, 5 carbon sugar, and phosphate
The names of the kingdoms of life are
What is Animalia, plantar, fungi, Protista, eubacteria, archaebacteria
State the ecological levels of organization IN ORDER, starting with the bottom and working up to the top of the biosphere. (There are 6)
What is :
individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
Name the categories of vertebrates that are ectothermic
What are:
fish, amphibians, reptiles
Name 9 of the 11 human body systems (in 15 seconds or less)
What is
integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive