Body Systems
Genetics
Evolution
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100
The human immune system releases these to fight infection
What are antibodies?
100
This is the term to describe an organism that possesses two identical genes for a single trait
What is homozygous?
100
This is the process of change in a population through time
What is evolution?
100
An organism that feeds on the blood of warm-blooded organisms
What is a parasite?
100
This is the percentage of bases is adenine (A) in a DNA sample containing 15% of bases that are thymine (T)?
What is 15%?
200
Vaccines most often contain these to help prepare the body to defend itself from infection.
What are weakened pathogens?
200
Inherited traits between parents and offspring are determined by these
What are genes?
200
"Organisms best adapted to a changed environment are more likely to reproduce and pass their genes to offspring"
Above is most closely related to this
What is the modern theory of evolution?
200
This is the relationship between one organism that benefits and the other is not effected positively or negatively.
What is commensalism?
200
This is a base found in the synthesis of RNA, but not DNA
What is uracil?
300
This is a similarity between the nervous and endocrine system in humans.
What is maintaining homeostasis?
300
These are the building blocks of DNA molecules
What are nucleotides?
300
This was the result of differentiation in adaptations among finches in the Galapagos Islands
What is geographic isolation?
300
An organism that is not native to an area, which negatively effects other species and ecosystems
What is an invasive species?
300
What is karyotyping?
400
As part of the nervous system, the medulla directly controls this action
What is involuntary activity?
400
A,T,C,G
What are the subunits of DNA?
400
This explains the similarities represented in this diagram.
What are homologous structures?
400
Solar radiation, water power or wind energy
What are renewable resources?
400
B-DNA serves as template for mRNA
C-mRNA moves to ribosomes
A-tRNA brings amino acids to the ribosome
D-Polypeptides are formed on ribosomes
What is the correct sequence for the production of protein molecules in a cell?
500
This is an immune response to usually harmless substances
What is an allergic reaction?
500
These components of DNA are held together by weak hydrogen bonds
What are nitrogenous base pairs?
500
This occurs when a species lacks variation necessary to adapt to a changing environment
What is extinction?
500
Introducing a natural predator to control a pest population
What are biological controls?
500
This results in a new variety of gene combinations in the species
What are genetic mutations?