Cell Biology
These are the phases of mitosis. List them in order.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
This specific part of the enzyme is where substrates will bind.
What is the active site?
This is the process by which mRNA transcripts are read by ribosomes to produce polypeptides
What is translation?
This category of organisms is able to produce their own food, most frequently by harvesting light energy.
What are autotrophs?
This is the process by which that traits increase the likelihood of an individual to survive and reproduce are selected for by the environment, and gradually become more frequent in a population.
What is natural selection?
This fatty material wraps around an axon to speed up signal transmission in a nerve.
What is myelin/myelin sheath? (Schwann cells also acceptable)
All of these artists except for one appeared on Ms. Glanville's 2025 Spotify Top Songs playlist:
Rebecca Black, Olivia Rodrigo, Twenty One Pilots, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter
Who is Taylor Swift?
A cell that contains chloroplasts, a plasma membrane and 80S ribosomes.
What is a plant cell?
This type of metabolic reaction describes the synthesis of larger macromolecules from smaller monomers.
What is anabolism/anabolic reactions?
This part of a tRNA molecule allows for complementary base pairing with mRNA in the ribosome to ensure the correct amino acid is being dropped off.
What is an anticodon?
This term describes the specific role an organism inhabits in an ecosystem
What is an ecological niche?
This term describes all of the alleles for a particular trait in a population of organisms living in the same place at the same time.
What is a gene pool?
This type of blood vessel has one-way valves to prevent the backflow of blood.
What is a vein?
Besides English, Ms. Glanville can speak a little of this language.
What is Japanese?
This cell has a nucleoid, cell wall, pilli, and 70S ribosomes.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
This type of lipid is made of a glycerol and three fatty acid chains, and is used as a long-term energy store in plant and animal cells, as well as insulation in animals in cold habitats.
What is a triglyceride?
This technique is used to amplify small amounts of DNA to be used for things like gel electrophoresis
What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?
This material is formed from partially decomposed organic matter in acidic, waterlogged conditions.
This process is the only way variation is introduced into asexually reproducing organisms.
What is mutation?
This alveolar cell produces surfactant to keep the inner surface of the alveoli moist and prevent collapse.
What is a type II pneumocyte?
This was Ms. Glanville's favourite extra-curricular in school
What is musical theatre?
This cell is an exception to cell theory because it is multinucleated and much longer than a typical human somatic cell.
What is a striated muscle fibre/skeletal muscle fibre?
These two forms of starch are both polysaccharides made of alpha-glucose monomers that are used as energy stores in plant cells.
What is amylose and amylopectin?
This term describes the identical halves of a replicated chromosome, held together by the centromere
What are sister chromatids?
This process is the primary way carbon is removed from carbon sinks in the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
This structure is commonly used as an example of a homologous structure in vertebrates
What is the pentadactyl limb?
This is the process by which one B-cell is "selected" by a specific antigen, and results in the production of many more B-cells which differentiate into plasma cells and memory cells
What is clonal selection?
Before becoming a teacher, Ms. Glanville worked at this charitable organisation
What is the BCSPCA?
These four kinds of stem cells differ in their ability to differentiate into different kinds of tissues. List them from most to least able to differentiate.
What are totipotent/omnipotent, pluripotent, multipotent, and unipotent stem cells?
This property of water allows aquatic habitats to absorb a large amount of heat before increasing in temperature by 1 degree Celsius, and allows aquatic habitats to remain fairly stable in temperature
What is (high) specific heat capacity?
This part of meiosis is also known as the reduction division
What is meiosis I?
A photosynthetic algae is eaten by a shrimp, which is eaten by a salmon. Name the salmon's position in this food chain.
What is a secondary consumer?
This kind of speciation can occur between organisms living in the same geographic area but may be reproductively isolated by differing behaviours
What is sympatric speciation?
This protein in the blood plasma is the inactive form of the protein which activates fibrinogen into fibrin during blood clot formation.
What is prothrombin?
Name BOTH of Ms. Glanville's cats