Meiosis
Evolution
Ecology
Genetics
DNA / Protein Synthesis
Teacher Trivia
100
What is the purpose of meiosis?
What is creating sperm and egg cells?
100
In this example tree, this species is equally related to the minke and humpback whales, but is more closely related to sheep and goats.
What is the cow?
100
An organism that must get its energy by eating other organisms is called this
What is a consumer?
100
If flowers have this type of inheritance, then a red parent and a white parent would produce pink offspring.
What is incomplete dominance?
100
What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
What is sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base?
100
What is Mr. Mietka's favorite color?
What is Dark red / maroon?
200
Where does meiosis take place?
What is sexual reproductive organs?
200
In comparative anatomy, the presence of these types of structures may indicate convergent evolution.
What are analogous structures?
200
Most of the energy at any trophic level is used for movement, reproduction, and metabolism, but this amount is passed on to the next trophic level
What is 10%?
200
In a cross between two parents who are heterozygous, this is the percent likelihood that they will have a child with the dominant phenotype.
What is 75%?
200
When making mRNA from DNA, C is paired up with G and A is paired up with this nitrogen base
What is U?
200
This is where Mr. Alperin went to college.
What is University of Illinois?
Urbana-Champaign
300
What is the outcome of meiosis?
What is 4 sperm or 1 egg with 3 polar bodies
300
Homologous structures and similar gene sequences can be evidence for this pattern of evolution
What is divergent evolution?
300
Create a food chain and food web in 2 minutes or less.
Answers will vary
300
What is the possible blood type of a child if the parents have A type Blood and B type Blood?
What is Type A, Type B, Type O, Type AB?
300
Why do we need DNA Transciption?
What is DNA is too wide to fit through the nuclear pore?
300
How old is Mr. Mietka?
What is age 27?
400
How come are all of the cells created in meiosis unique and what is the purpose of this?
What is crossing over, to increase genetic diversity
400
Who is the father of evolution/natural selection? Where did he study?
What is Darwin, galapagos islands?
400
These are living or nonliving components of ecosystems which can raise or lower the carrying capacity.
What are limiting factors?
400
This type of inheritance is shown in the image. For half credit, what do we call these?
What is autosomal dominant?
Half credit : Pedigree
400
These types of mutations cause a frameshift mutation, which really dramatically changes the resulting protein
What is an insertion or deletion mutation?
400
Name two activities Ms. Fee enjoys doing in her free time.
What is hosting trivia and doing art?
500
Draw an image representing all phases of meiosis.
Answers will vary
500
What are the 3 out of the 5 fingers of evolution?
What is small population, non-random mating, mutations, gene flow, adaptations
500
This type of organism is particularly important in primary succession, but may be less important in secondary succession (one example is a lichen).
What is a pioneer species?
500
These are Mendel's three laws of inheritance.
1. Dominance
2. Segregation
3. Independent Assortment
500
This process occurs at the ribosome, and converts mRNA to an amino acid sequence.
What is translation?
500
What is Mr. Mietka's favorite plant called?
Hint* It is in the room
What is pothos?