Organisms that have one of each possible allele for a given trait are called this.
What is heterozygous?
100
What about Lamarck's theory of evolution was an epic fail?
What is Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics?
100
What is the difference between the flow of energy and the flow of matter in an ecosystem?
What is Matter is recycled, energy flows one-way only.
100
Linneaus's classification divisions, from SMALLEST (least inclusive) to LARGEST (most inclusive).
What is species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom?
100
How are protists "classified"?
What is animal-like, plant-like, and fungus-like?
200
How many different allele combinations are possible if an organism's genotype is BbDd, and what are they?
What is four: BD, Bd, bD, and bd.
200
What is the relationship between mutation, variation, and adaptation?
What is Mutations create variation. A variation that gives a survival advantage is an adaptation.
200
You have 100 calories of energy in a mouse, explain what happens to those categories by percentage.
What is 90% is used by the mouse for metabolism, reproduction, etc.; 10% is available to be used at the next trophic level?
200
The system reponsible for releasing hormones into the bloodstream via ductless glands.
What is the endocrine system?
200
Name three characteristics that can be used to classify a eubacteria or archaebacteria.
What is cell shape, movement, or how it obtains food?
300
Gel electrophoresis (DNA fingerprinting) gives you a "picture" of DNA as banding patterns. What determines where a particular band will go on a gel? Give an example.
What is fragment size? For example, the larger fragments move slower, so they stay closer to the well. Smaller fragments move faster and go more towards the bottom of the gel.
300
An organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment is called what?
What is fitness?
300
A barnacle is growing on a whale. The barnacle scores food and protection from the whale; the whale doesn't know that the barnacle is even there. What type of relationship is this?
What is commensalism?
300
The main function of the integumentary system.
What is protection?
300
This kingdom contains heterotrophs with cell walls made of chitin.
What is fungi?
400
A woman with type A blood has a kid with a man with type B blood. What are the possibilities for the offspring's blood type (genotype AND phenotype)?
What is Type A (AO), Type B (BO), Type AB (AB) or type O (OO)
400
Darwin's theory of evolution is missing what part of today's "synthetic" theory?
What is how genes are passed/inheritance/genetics?
400
What is the relationship between trophic level, food chain, and food web?
What is: A food chain shows the trophic levels of who eats who. A food web is a series of interconnected food chains.
400
Where the process of digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
400
What type of reproduction is found in fungi?
What is asexual or sexual?
500
A cross of a black chicken (BB) and a white chicken (WW) produces a gray chicken (BW). This is an example of what?
What is codominance?
500
What is absolutely required for the formation of a new species?
What is reproductive isolation?
500
What are the range of all conditions in which an organism lives, and the way it uses those conditions?
What is a niche?
500
This part of the plant serves the same function as an animal's skeleton.
What is the stem?
500
In the plant kingdom, what does vascular tissue do, and what are the two main types?
What is transport: xylem (transport water), phloem (transports food).