Characteristics of life
What does organization mean?
All living things are made of cells.
Eukaryotic cells (do or do not) have a nucleus; Prokaryotic cells (do or do not)?
do; do not
A gene is a a selection of a (blank) that codes for a unique protein.
DNA molecule
Name the 4 types of fossils.
Cast, Mold, Original material, Trace fossils.
What type of dominance is controlled by one gene with only two possible alleles?
Simple dominance
What does energy mean?
All living things need energy for carrying out life.
Organisms that are made of of (one or multiple) cell(s) are called unicellular; )One or multiple) cell(s) are multicellular.
one; multiple
Who first described the shape of DNA as a double helix?
Watson and Crick
Theory of (Blank) is the idea that organisms can gain new traits and pass on those traits to their offspring.
acquired characteristics
What type of dominance is two traits produce a blended phenotype?
Incomplete dominance
What does growth mean?
All organisms grow.
What is the process that uses oxygen called?
aerobic process
The theory of (blank) states that individuals in a species must compete for the things they need to survive.
Natural selection
(Blank) refers to the blending of Darwin's theories of natural selection with mutations and genetics?
Modern synthesis
What kind of dominance is a gene has more than 2 possible alleles?
Multiple alleles
What does reproduction mean?
All organisms came from another living thing.
Who first used the term "cell" to describe the smallest working unit of an organism?
Robert Hooke
According to uniformitarian geology where are the oldest rocks found?
at the bottom of a layered column.
(Blank) refers to the idea that Earth's physical processes operate at the same rate in the present as in the past.
Uniformitarianism
What type of dominance is two or more genes interact to produce a single trait?
Polygenic inheritance
What does response mean?
All organisms respond to their environment.
What are the 7 eukaryotic cell structures?
Nucleus, Golgi apparatus, Cytoskeleton, Mitochondria, Lysosomes, Ribosomes, Endoplasmic reticulum.
Carbon-14 dating is only useful for rocks that are less than (how many) years old.
100.000
Random changes in DNA are called (blank)
mutations
What type of dominance is both traits are present in hybrid offspring, but without blending?
Codominance