Genetics
The different forms of a trait that a gene may have.
What are alleles?
The two steps of protein synthesis.
What is transcription and translation?
This law states that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion (the Law of Inertia)?
Examples include gravity, magnetic forces, and electric forces.
What are non-contact forces?
This is the sum of all the forces acting on an object, determining whether an object will accelerate or remain at a constant velocity.
What is net force?
A genetically determined characteristic.
A trait.
The process of creating mRNA from DNA located in the nucleus?
What is transcription?
This law explains how the force exerted on an object relates to both its mass and acceleration. It can be written as F = ma.
What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?
This type of force occurs when two surfaces rub against each other, slowing down the motion of one or both objects.
What is friction?
This is the shortest distance between the starting point and the ending point, including direction.
What is displacement?
A trait that can mask other versions of that trait.
What is a dominant gene (allele)?
The process of reading the mRNA and strand and turning it into an amino acid chain?
What is translation?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It's why you move backward when you push on a wall.
What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?
This force pulls objects toward the Earth and is responsible for giving weight to physical objects.
What is gravity?
This term refers to how fast an object moves, regardless of its direction. It’s the distance traveled divided by the time taken.
What is speed?
An organism's genetic makeup, AA, Aa, or aa?
What is genotype?
This organelle creates proteins.
What is a ribosome?
An example of one of Newton's laws: when you slam on the brakes in a car, your body keeps moving forward even though the car has stopped.
What is an example of Newton's First Law of Motion (Inertia)?
This force opposes the motion of objects moving through the air and acts in the opposite direction of their motion.
What is air resistance?
This is a vector quantity that includes both the speed of an object and the direction in which it is moving.
What is velocity?
What is phenotype?
Another word for a protein chain.
What is a polypeptide chain?
A jet engine expels exhaust gases backward at high speed, which propels the jet forward. This is an example of this law.
What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?
This force is exerted by a stretched string or rope, such as when you pull on a rope during a tug-of-war or when a hanging object pulls on a rope.
What is tension?
This is the rate at which an object's velocity changes over time. It can be positive (speeding up) or negative (slowing down) or changing direction.
What is acceleration?