Plate Tectonics
Plates collide, forming mountains
What is convergent?
An individual who has a recessive trait that is not expressed in their phenotype.
What is a carrier?
A chemist and x-ray crystallographer, and made contributions to understanding DNA structure, also took photo 51.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Charge of a neutron.
What is neutral?
A closed loop that allows charge to flow.
What is an electric circuit?
The theory that Earth's continents were once joined as a supercontinent called Pangaea before breaking apart and drifting to their present positions.
What is continental drift?
A variation of a gene.
What is an allele?
Developed the theory that are caused by malfunctioning cells.
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
Bond that transfers electrons.
What is a ionic bond?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
Plates pull apart, creating rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges
What is divergent?
An organism with two different alleles for a trait.
What is a heterozygous organism?
Developed the theory of evolution with natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Bond that shares electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
Energy stored in an object due to its position or configuration, such as a rock at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
Plates slide past each other, forming faults
What is transform?
A small segment of DNA that codes for a specific trait.
What is a gene?
Used a telescope to make astronomical observations. "Father of modern science"
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Process of a solid turning into a gas.
What is sublimation?
The energy an object possesses due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
It occurs when a dense oceanic plate dives beneath a less-dense continental or younger oceanic plate, melting the mantle and creating volcanoes.
What is subduction?
A graphical grid used in genetics to predict the probability of offspring inheriting specific genotypes and phenotypes from two parents.
What is a punnett square?
Most influential scientists of the 19th century, worked on electromagnetism and light.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
Chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
The number of oscillations or cycles per second.
What is frequency?