DNA & Protein
Origin of Life & Natural Selection
Other mechanisms & methods of classification
100
Organic molecules that serve as the monomers, or subunits, of nucleic acids like DNA or RNA.
What is nucleotide?
100
Not liquids, gases, or solid chemical compounds.
What is inorganic?
100
Random exchange in allele frequency's caused by a series of chance occurrences that cause an allele to become more or less common in a population.
What is Genetic drift?
200
Enzymes that bind and may even remodel nucleic acid or nucleic acid protein complexes.
What is helicase?
200
The formation of complex organic molecules from simpler inorganic molecules through chemical reactions.
What is chemical evolution?
200
Sequence of DNA that codes for a protein.
What is Gene flow?
300
Single-stranded nucleic acid that contains that sugar ribose. (mRNA, tRNA, rRNA)
What is RNA?
300
Proposes that organelles were once prokaryotic cells, living inside larger host cells.
What is Endosymbiotic Evolution?
300
Occurs when the probability the two individuals in a population will mate is not the same for all possible parts of individuals.
What is Non-random Mating?
400
Long chain of amino acids that makes proteins
What is polypeptide?
400
How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is fitness?
400
A branch of classification science conceived.
What is Taxonomy?
500
Enzyme that links together the growing chain of RNA nucleotides during transcription using a DNA strand as a template.
What is RNA polymerase?
500
Genes and genetics you get from your parents.
What is Inherited variation?
500
A diagram depicting the successive points of species diverceince.
What is a Cladogram?
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