Ecology
Define Abiotic
Non-living things
What is the first trophic level?
Producers
What are genes?
They are small units of DNA.
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What is the driest biome?
The Dessert
Name all of the 5 levels
Producers, primary, secondary, teritary, Apex
What is recombination?
is an important process that can help repair broken DNA, and help shuffle the DNA when making eggs and sperm.
Where is DNA located?
Nucleus
An organism that breaks down wases and dad organims is?
Decomposer
What level gets the most energy?
Producers
What is an allele whose phenotypic effect is not observed in a heterozygote - it is "masked" or hidden.
Recessive Allele
The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix is called?
Hydrogen bond
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy is called?
A food chain
Describe how energy gets passed around within an ecosystem?
counsumers
What is a diagram used in the study of inheritance to show the predicted genotypic results of random fertilization in genetic.
Punnett Square
The enzyme that is used to make a copy of a DNA molecule.
DNA polymerase
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
Commensalism
Describe the 10 percent rule?
Each level looses energy when they consume.
Method of identifying the gametes possible for a dihybrid square.
FOIL method
What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
A (nitrogenous) base, a sugar, and a phosphate.