Light me Up!
The process of making food in a plant is called___________.
What is photosynthesis?
One DNA strand has a base sequence GTCCATA. The base sequence on the second strand of DNA is...
CAGGTAT
Jimmy has a big nose. His genotype is GG. Sally also has a big nose. Her genotype is Gg. What are the possibilities for their children's genotypes?
What is GG, GG, Gg, Gg
This organelle controls movement in and out of the cell
What is Cell membrane?
Water forming on the outside of a cold glass of water
What is condensation?
The green pigment located in the chloroplast that traps the energy from the sun is called_____________.
What is chlorophyll?
A single stranded piece of a DNA has the following bases: ACTGAG. What is the matching sequence on its RNA transcript?
UGACUC
Jared is homozygous for brown hair. His wife is homozygous for blonde hair. Brown hair is dominant to blonde hair. What are the possible genotypes for their children?
What is Bb, Bb, Bb, Bb.
Captures energy from the sun
What are the chloroplasts?
Levels of Organization
Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism
The guard cells tell these tiny openings in a leaf to allow carbon dioxide to enter a plant, and oxygen and water vapor to exit a plant.
What are stomata?
These two men are credited with figuring out the shape & structure of DNA. They used a photograph taken by a female fellow scientist (+points if you can name the female scientist).
James Watson and Francis Crick (+points for Rosalind Franklin)
Mike is heterozygous for brown eyes. His wife has blue eyes. What percentage of their children will most likely have brown eyes? What percentage will most likely have blue eyes?
What is 50% brown and 50% blue eyes?
This organelle controls all the other organelles in the cell.
What is the Nucleus?
One organism benefits, and the other is neither harm nor affected
What is Commensalism?
The process by which glucose and oxygen break down to release stored energy is called________________.
What is cellular respiration?
This process turns mRNA into a protein.
What is Translation?
Tim and Jenny both have dark skin, but each of them carry a recessive trait for light skin. What are the chances that their children will have dark skin? Light skin?
What is 75% dark skin and 25% light skin.
This organelle is responsible for cellular respiration, which is when food is turned into energy
What is the Mitochondria?
Organelles are found in Both Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells
What are Ribosomes, Cytoplasm, and Cell membrane?
Fructose, sucrose, and glucose are all different forms of___________.
What is sugar?
Name 4 differences between DNA and RNA.
DNA: deoxyribose, thymine, long, double-stranded, made by DNA replication. RNA: ribose, uracil, short, single-stranded, made by transcription.
James is homozygous for big lips. His wife also has big lips, none of their children has small lips. What is his wife's genotype?
What is Bb?
This organelle contains digestive enzymes that are used to break down waste and other items the cell no longer needs
What are Lysosomes?
The process in which a cell creates a vesicle to surround and engulf a particle to bring it into the cell
What is Endocytosis?