Ecology
Biome characterized by constantly high temperatures and high precipitation.
What is a tropical rainforest?
The structure/shape of deoxyribonucleic acid.
What is a double helix?
The name of a long slender region coming off of a neuron's cell body.
Cancer that spreads from one part of the body to another.
What is metastatic cancer / metastasis?
The first clear evidence of speciation recorded in mammals was presented by ______ looking at _____.
Who is Charles Darwin? What are finches?
Starting and ending products of translation.
What are RNA and proteins?
A neuroscience professor at Temple University.
Who is... Dr. Anni, Dr. Sheffield, Dr. Moore, etc?
Two preventable causes of cancer (any!)
What is tobacco, diet, sun exposure, alcohol, etc?
Ecological principle that explains why male birds of paradise often have elaborate mating dances and coloration in their feathers.
What is sexual selection? (bonus 1 point for intersexual selection)
Makes up the DNA backbone.
What is sugar and phosphate? (With nitrogenous bases in between)
Two components of the central nervous system.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
Where leukemia begins to form.
What is blood / bone marrow tissue?
Number of wolves remaining in a population in 2019 after the 2018 population, made up of 58 wolves, welcomed 4 new cubs (but only 3 survived) and lost two elderly members but were introduced to 3 novel individuals from a neighboring population but also lost one of their own individuals to a nearby pack.
What are 61 wolves?
Three amino acids (any ones!)
What are...
Alanine
Arginine
Asparagine
Aspartic acid
Cysteine
Glutamic acid
Glutamine
Glycine
Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Proline
Serine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Tyrosine
Valine
Lobe of the brain primarily responsible for function of vision.
ABCDE of skin cancer.
What is asymmetry, border, color, diameter, evolution?
One component of the Lotka Volterra model for interspecific competition.
What is carrying capacity, population size, population growth, alpha (impact of species x on species y), population growth rate?
Resulting 5' to 3' RNA transcript from DNA template 3' A G T A C G 5'.
What is 5' T C U T G C 3' ?
Direction of an impulse through a neuron from central nervous system (CNS) to peripheral nervous system (PNS).
What is efferent (or distally)?
Most cases of inherited breast cancers involve one of these two genes.
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2?