Unit 1
Unit 2
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Unit 4
Vocabulary
100
Tending to repel or fail to mix with water.
What is hydrophobic
100
form the basic structural unit of nucleic acids such as DNA.
What is a nucleotide
100
A member of the aboriginal people of New Zealand.
Who are the Maori
100
The period of time covering the physical formation and development of Earth, especially the period prior to human history.
What is geologic time
100
A compound that speeds up a chemical reaction.
What is a catalyst
200
biological molecules that act as catalysts in a living organism
What is an enzyme
200
one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule
What are base pairs
200
"Why you white man have so much cargo, and we New Guinean have so little?"
What is Yali's question
200
a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found.
What is an index fossil
200
the process of creating glucose using sunlight
What is photosynthesis
300
movement of particles down their concentration gradient (i.e. difference in the concentrations of substances or molecules between two areas).
What is diffusion
300
Any of a group of basic proteins found in chromatin.
What is a histone
300
Where the first farmers began planting their crops
What is the fertile crescent
300
The major mechanism in evolution
What is natural selection
300
The process of breaking glucose into pyruvate
What is glycolosis
400
The positively charged central core of an atom, containing most of its mass.
What is a nucleus
400
The process of duplicating or producing an exact copy of a polynucleotide strand such as DNA.
What is replication
400
A sector of the economy that focuses on farming
What is agriculture
400
Name two types of molecular data
What is gene sequence data and protein sequence data
400
the process of making a copy of genetic information stored in a DNA strand into a complementary strand of RNA with the aid of RNA polymerases.
What is transcription
500
Sun-> photosynthesis-> glucose-> respiration-> ATP-> energy
what is energy flow
500
states that allele pairs separate during gamete formation, and randomly unite at fertilization.
What is The Law of Segregation
500
The three major elements that separate the world's "haves" from the "have nots".
What is Guns, Germs, and Steel
500
The four factors that contribute to evolution
What is mutation, migration, genetic drift, and natural selection
500
The structural, functional, and biological unit of all organisms.
What is a cell
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