Cell Biology
the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi body and lysosomes are a part of this system.
What is the endomembrane system?
The chloroplast is an organelle found in plant cells and certain algae. What process does this organelle undergo?
What is photosynthesis?
a large-scale terrestrial biological community shaped by the regional climate, soil, and disturbance patterns and classified by the growth form of the dominant plants
what is a biome?
What year did the Brantford campus open?
What is 1999?
a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
What is a gene?
this organelle is responsible for creating ribosomes in the nucleus.
What is the nucleolus?
Which component of the vascular bundle is responsible for carrying nutrients from the leaves to the roots of the plant?
What is phloem?
A large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes
what is a hadley cell?
How many consecutive years was Laurier voted no.1 in student satisfaction according to Macleans Magazine?
What is 4?
a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes
What is a chromosome?
NES sequences are recognized by ___________, which mediate transport of the complexes out of the nucleus
What is exportin?
If the gynoecium of a flower is found above the position of the calyx, what is its position called?
What is superior?
any organism that is intimately associated with, and metabolically dependent upon, another living organism (the host) for completion of its life cycle, and which is detrimental to the host to some greater or lesser degree
what is a parasite?
What school was Laurier originally affiliated with?
What is Western University?
one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome
What is an allele?
the process by which secretory vesicles release their contents outside the cell
What is exocytosis?
What do you call the complex tissue that forms the outer bark in woody plants?
What is periderm?
scientific name for pill bugs, sow bugs, or rollie-pollies
what is a isopod?
What was Laurier's first mascot?
What is a mule?
the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
What is a phenotype?
short C-terminal sequences for some proteins returned from the Golgi to the ER
What is a retrieval tag?
If the male and female flowers (not hermaphroditic flowers) are found on the same plant, this plant is considered ______.
What is monoecious?
very small animals that float near the surface of a body of water
what is zooplankton?
Before being named Wilfrid Laurier University, what did WLU stand for in terms of the institutions name?
What is Waterloo Lutheran University?
the interaction of genes that are not alleles, in particular the suppression of the effect of one such gene by another.
What is epistasis?