DNA, Biotechnology, and Microbiology
Principles of Evolution
Plant Evolution and Diversity
Animal Evolution and Diversity
Human Body Systems
100
A term for an organism that requires oxygen, but only at small concentrations.
What is a microaerophile?
100
The proportion of heterozygous individuals in a population in which p = 0.4.
What is 48%
100
A feature that is completely unique to leaves.
What are stomata?
100
The two primary distinguishing features of mammals.
What are mammary glands and hair?
100
The tube that transports urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
What is the urethra?
200
A molecule that is only found in bacterial cell walls.
What is peptidoglycan?
200
The kind of selection seen in the gradual differentiation of beak size and shape in Galapagos finches.
What is disruptive selection?
200
The two products of double fertilization.
What are the zygote and the endosperm?
200
The primary means of gas exchange in amphibians.
What is subcutaneous respiration?
200
The two possible cellular responses following signal transduction.
What are changes in gene expression and metabolic pathways?
300
The four processes of the central dogma, in order.
What are DNA replication, transcription, mRNA processing, and transation?
300
The Hardy-Weinberg equation for determining genotype frequencies.
What is p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1?
300
Another, more formal term to describe an anther.
What is a microsporangium?
300
The three parts of the ventral cavity.
What are the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities?
300
The blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
400
A descriptive term for the relationship of a virus to its specific host (three words).
What is an 'obligate intracellular parasite'?
400
A genetic change that can be passed along from parent to offspring.
What is heritable variation?
400
The definition of transpiration.
What is the evaporation of water through leaf stomata?
400
The only ancestral trait that is entirely unique to animals.
What is blastula formation?
400
The four components of the inflammatory response.
What are heat, swelling, pain, and redness?
500
The three means of prokaryotic recombination.
What are conjugation, transduction, and transformation?
500
The definition of evolution.
What is a change in allele frequencies in a given population over time?
500
The three proteins involved in mineral uptake.
What are proton pumps, carriers, and channels?
500
The definition of endothermy.
What is the use of metabolic heat to maintain a constant internal temperature?
500
The three components found in all connective tissues.
What are specialized cells, fibers, and ground substance?
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