DNA and genetics
This is the term for the alleles an organism has for a characteristic (GG, Gg or gg)
What is genotype?
Learning which occurs at a specific time period, that Konrad Lorenz is known for, from his studies of geese.
What is imprinting?
The domain that has very old bacteria and can live in high temp and low pH, and have strange metabolism
What are Archéae? (Domain Archéae)
The level of ecology of all of the different organisms living together and interacting (without the abiotic environment)
What is a community?
The two monosaccharides that make up lactose
What are glucose and galactose?
These are genes that are located on the same chromosome
What are linked genes?
This man studied classical conditioning in dogs (and "The Office" ex we saw)
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
The phylum that Sponge Bob is in
What is Phylum Porifera?
A species that has a great influence on the ecosystem (wolves in Yellowstone ex, )
What is a keystone species?
The polysaccharide used for energy storage in the human liver
Wha is glycogen?
The technique used to separate fragments of DNA by length
What is gel electropohresis?
Helping someone with risk to yourself
What is altruism or altruistic behaviour?
Phylum name of plants which reproduce with spores, and have no vessels for transport (dominant generation is haploid)
What is phylum bryophyta (mosses)
The role of an organism in its ecosystem
What is niche?
The two types of shapes that proteins can show in the secondary structure level (made by H-bonds between NH2 and COOH groups)
What are alpha helix and beta pleated sheets?
The specific molecule that replaces RNA in the okazaki fragments on the lagging strand during DNA replication
What is DNA polymerase I?
Innate behaviour of movement toward or away from a stimulus
What is taxis?
All vertebrates are in this phylum
What is Phylum Chordata?
The full name of the method used to measure the population size of a sessile (non-moving) population we did with beans.
What is the capture-mark-release-recapture method (to calculate the Lincoln index)
The type of reaction where two small molecules combine to form a larger molecule plus water.
Ex. glucose + glucose = maltose + H2O
What is a condensation reaction (needs catabolic enzymes)
The structure of two coils of DNA around 8 histone proteins
What is a nucleosome?
Learned behavior where an animal learns a new behavior by trial and error and reward (or punishment)
(and "Big Bang Theory" we saw)
What is Operant conditioning?
Phylum including "Mr. Crabs", insects, spiders, shrimp.. exoskelton of chitin and jointed appendages
What is phylum arthropoda?
Name of the principle describing why only one type of Paramecium survived after time, if two types were living together and had the exact same niche.
What is the Principle of competitive exclusion? (Gausse's principle)
A type of unsaturated fatty acid with H's on opposite sides of the double bond, and that is bad for your health
What are transfats?