Life Cycles
Human Body
Genetics
Ecology
Lagniappe
100
The ovary of the flower develops into this.
What is a fruit?
100
Give an example of one way your body maintains homeostasis.
What is shivering, sweating, etc.
100
The longest phase of the cell cycle.
What is Interphase?
100
The levels of organization within an ecosystem from smallest to largest.
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem?
100
An organism only inherits this many alleles for any given gene.
What is two (one from the mother and one from the father)?
200
Where the ovules of a pine tree (gymnosperm) are found.
What is cones?
200
The body part where two bones join together.
What is a joint?
200
Two Part Question: (1) The number of chromosomes in human body cells (diploid). (2) The number of chromosomes in human egg and sperm cells (haploid).
What is (1) 46? (2) 23?
200
The role of an organism in it's habitat.
What is an organism's niche?
200
The stages of mitosis.
What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase?
300
Two Part Question: (1) The stages of complete metamorphosis. (2) The stages of incomplete metamorphosis.
What is (1) egg, larva, pupa, adult? (2) egg, nymph, adult?
300
This system produces chemicals that control both daily activities and long term changes through hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
300
The percent of tall offspring from a cross between a purebred tall plant (TT) and a purebred short plant (tt)?
What is 100%?
300
The difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain shows one path of energy in an ecosystem while a food web shows all path's of energy in an ecosystem (overlapping food chains)?
300
Fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas are considered to be what type of resource to humans?
What is a biotic resource?
400
The leaves that first emerge when a seed germinates.
What is cotyledons?
400
The levels of human body organization from most complex to least complex.
What is organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell?
400
Two Part Question: (1) An organism's allele combination for any given gene. (2) An organism's physical expression of any given gene.
What is (1) genotype? (2) phenotype?
400
Give an example of parasitism (using specific organisms).
Points awarded based on teacher's judgment.
400
The reason why chromosomes in body cells exist in pairs.
What is due to the fusing of sperm and egg cells?
500
Two Part Question: Parts of a plant's life cycle that (1) produces spores and (2) produces sperm and egg cells?
What is the (1) sporophyte stage of a plant and (2) the gametophyte stage of a plant?
500
The two human body systems that control body functions.
What is nervous and endocrine systems?
500
The type of inheritance that controls sickle cell disease. (Possible Genotypes: Has sickle cell = SS, Carrier = AS Normal = AA)
What is codominance.
500
This occurs when redfish and speckled trout feed on shrimp in the same marsh.
What is competition?
500
Trace the path of blood through a frog's circulatory system, beginning with the veins.
What is veins -> right and left atria -> ventricle -> arteries -> capillaries -> rest of the body?
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