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Potpourri
100
Thought to be the originator of modern evolutionary theory.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
The structural unit of most organisms?
What are cells?
100
A disorder where a person is normal or diploid for all chromosomes except #21, which has 3.
What is Trisomy 21 or down syndrome?
100
The source of energy for all living things.
What is the sun?
100

An organism that feeds directly on plant material and is the second tier of the pyramid of numbers.

What is a primary consumer?

200
An Austrian monk who, using a pea plant, managed to deduce several primary facts about how genes are transmitted between generations.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
A coiled structure found in the nucleus of Eukaryote cells that contains DNA.
What are chromosomes?
200
Only one copy of the mutated gene is necessary for a person to be affected by the disease.
What is an autosomal dominant disorder?
200
Energy is released when ATP loses this atom.
What is a phosphate?
200

A diagram showing the chromosomal makeup of an organism's cell that can be examined for irregularities.

What is a karyotype?

300
A Swedish Biologist who was the first to form a binomial system of classifying organisms.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
300
A disease where the control mechanisms of cells becomes altered and cells do not stop dividing.
What is cancer?
300
An autosomal recessive blood disorder that is actually an evolutionary advantage for heterozygotes against malaria in some parts of the world.
What is sickle-cell anemia?
300
An organism dependent on obtaining organic food from the environment because it cannot synthesize its own from the sun.
What is a heterotroph?
300
The loss of water from the leaf of a plant that is thought to be the pressure that drives water from roots to leaves.
What is Transpiration?
400
One of the first scientists to give consideration to evolutionary development of life. He is most famous for the theory of the inheritance of acquired characters that is now discredited.
Who is Jean Baptiste LaMarck?
400
A biome where the average rainfall is above 50cm and the average temperature is below 10 degrees C.
What is Coniferous Forest/Taiga?
400
A genetic disorder where the person is missing one X chromosome and is infertile.
What is Turner's syndrome or monosomy X?
400
The first stage of cellular respiration.
What is glycolysis?
400
A special kind of cell capable of renewing itself under certain conditions and can differentiate into almost any cell type in the body.
What are stem cells?
500
Along with Darwin, founded modern evolutionary thought.
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace?
500
Also called the "dark reactions" of photosynthesis, CO2 is transformed into carbohydrates here.
What is the Calvin Cycle?
500
A type of disorder that can only be passed down maternally.
What is a mitochondrial disease?
500
A metabolic process that takes place when oxygen is not present.
What is anaerobic?
500
A term used to describe cell division for Prokarotes.
What is binary fission?
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