Weeks 1-4
What is a molecule that contains information for an organism’s growth and functions.
What is DNA?
What is when parents contribute a cell that contains genetic information.
What is sexual reproduction?
What is a gamete (reproductive cell) that forms in the female reproductive organ.
What is an egg?
What are hardened animal remains such as shells, bones, and teeth?
What are fossils?
What is the normal sequence of development and division of a cell.
What is the cell cycle?
What is a segment of DNA that influences hereditary characteristics?
What is a gene?
What is a gamete (reproductive cell) that forms in the male reproductive organ?
What is a sperm?
What is the set of natural processes that form, change, break down, and re-form rocks?
What is the rock cycle?
What is a cell that can differentiate throughout life.
What is a stem cell?
What is the passing of genes from parent to offspring?
What is heredity?
What is the combination of a sperm and an egg to form a single cell.
What is fertilization?
What is the era whose name means “ancient life” where life went from the ocean to land?
What is the Paleozoic era?
What is the process by which cells change in structure and become capable of carrying out specialized functions.
What is differentiation?
What is an allele that is expressed even if only one copy is present?
What is dominant?
What is a diagram that illustrates how two parent’s alleles might combine in offspring.
What is a Punnett Square?
What is the era whose name means “middle life” is best known as the era of dinosaurs and saw the first mammals, birds, and flowering plants.
What is the Mesozoic era?
What is the part of the cell cycle during which the cell divides creating two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
What is an allele that is expressed only when two copies are present?
What is recessive?
What is a process that produces cells with half the usual number of chromosomes for sexual reproduction?
What is meiosis?
What is the era whose name means the “recent life” is best known as the age of mammals during which mammals became the dominant life form on earth?
What is the Cenozoic era?