THE LINEAR LIFE
This type of equation represents a straight line when graphed on a coordinate plane
What is a linear equation?
Segments of DNA on a chromosome usually represented in diagrams as “bands”
What are genes?
Alaska was purchased from this country for 7.2 million dollars
What is Russia?
A set of two or more equations
What is a system of equations?
CO2 + H2O —> C6H12O6 + O2
What is photosynthesis?
This factor is what causes people to leave their home countries
What is a push factor?
In the equation y=mx+b, this letter represents the slope of the line
What is m?
This process ensures that only half of a parent's genetic material is passed on to their offspring
What is meiosis?
The Treaty of Kanagawa forced this country to open up its trade
What is Japan?
A system that has different slopes and the same or different y-intercepts
What is a one solution system?
When blood sugar levels are too high, this hormone will be released
What is insulin?
The Jim ______ laws created segregated facilities throughout the U.S
What is Crow?
Solve (d = r*t) for t
What is t = d/r?
The site of mitosis and differentiation of an embryo
What is the uterus?
Queen Liloukalani was leader of this country before it was annexed by the U.S. in 1898
What is Hawaii?
A system that has the same slope and different y-intercepts
What is a no solution system?
The monomer of starch and glycogen
What is glucose/monosaccharide/simple sugar?
The __________ door policy was when the U.S. forced China to trade with countries
What is Open?
Solve (P=2L + 2w) for w
What is w = P - 2L / 2?
An offspring that contains either two dominant or two recessive alleles for a trait
What is homozygous?
At the end of the Spanish-American war, the U.S. acquired this Caribbean territory which is still part of the U.S. today
What is Puerto Rico?
A system of linear equations with endless possibilities
What is an infinite solutions system?
When a cell is placed in a salt solution, that cell will appear ___ under the microscope
What is shriveled/shrunken?
This type of tax was created to prevent African Americans from voting despite the 15th amendment
What is a poll tax?
Solving the equation (2x - 6 = 21 - 7x) gives this value of x
What is 3?
The complementary base pairing rules in DNA
What is A pairs with T & C pairs with G?
This manmade system created a shortcut from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean
What is the Panama Canal?
Two lines graphed in which one line has a zero slope and the other line has an undefined slope
What are perpendicular lines?
A set of three molecular bases
What is a codon?
The U.S. acquired this Pacific territory as a result of winning the Spanish-American War
What is Guam?