Evolution
Two of the four mechanisms of evolution are
natural selection, gene flow, genetic drift, mutations
What is a chromosome?
DNA which is a genetic code that is stored in chromosomes.
Translation and transcription
What is a homozygous dominant individual
someone with the same alleles with the dominant trait (or the one that turns off the recessive trait).
A cell is
the building block of living organisms
What is environmental pressure?
What are the base pairs in DNA?
Adenine - Thymine
Cytosine - Guanine
What is the flow of information from DNA to the Organism?
DNA copies to RNA which code for amino acids which make proteins which make up living cells which together form tissues which make up organs which all together form an organism.
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What is a structural adaptation?
An adaptation that you can see like camouflage or beak size.
An enzyme is a
cell machine made up of proteins
The end result of transcription is
mRNA leaving the nucleus (a small, single sided copy of DNA)
I have wet ear wax (W). My mom has dry ear wax (w). What is my genotype?
Ww - heterozygous dominant
TAC-GCG-TAT
UTG - CGC - UAU
What is anatomical homologies?
A structural similarity between different species that points to shared ancestry
What is DNA short for?
deoxyribonucleic acid
The end result of translation is
an amino acid chain that folds into proteins
What kind of offspring result from asexual reproduction?
Identical
What is a zygote?
a new cell that forms from fertilization
Evolution happens to ____________ not individuals
Populations
These base pairs always pair together in RNA
Adenine and Uracil
all of them: mRNA, tRNA, rRNA
What type of offspring is made from sexual reproduction?
what are the 4 stages of mitosis
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase