Thought to be the originator of modern evolutionary theory.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
The structural unit of most organisms? (smallest unit of life)
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 autotrophs
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
when a disease is passed from generation to generation, it is said to be a ___________ disorder.
what is dominant
200
The type of energy used for cellular respiration
What is a ATP?
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 very common disease that can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, or race where the control mechanisms of cells becomes altered and cells do not stop dividing. Some people survive this disease
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 your body by heat is known as
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
It is the outer part of a cell and it is used to let certain things in and out of the cell as well as for protection
What is Cell membrane?
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 formula for the type of sugar needed for photosynthesis
What is C6H12O6?
400
The four chambers of the heart are
What are L+R atrium L+R ventricle?
500
The girl who discovered the structure of DNA but was never given recognition.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
500
This organelle is located in the plant cell and it is used during photosynthesis
What is the Chloroplast?
500
A type of disorder that affects males because it is carried on the X chromosome
What is color blind?
500
The process of cellular respiration happens inside the