Mitosis
Meiosis
Heredity
DNA
Evolution
100
This is the repeating sequence of growth and division for cells.
What is the cell cycle?
100
When a sperm fertilizes and egg, this is formed.
What is a zygote?
100
He is known as the father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
100
This is a virus that infects a bacteria and uses the bacteria to make more copies of this.
What is a bacteriophage?
100
This is the longest measurement of geologic time.
What is an era?
200
This is the largest part of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
200
This type of reproduction doesn't require two parents and basically produces clones.
What is asexual?
200
This is made of all 25 to 30 thousand genes.
What is a genome?
200
In Avery's experiments with bacteriophages, DNA was this, that caused the genes of a bacteria to change into a bacteriophage.
What is a transforming principle?
200
This is what Linnaeus called his class system for organisms based on physical similarities.
What is binomial nomenclature?
300
The uncontrolled division of a cell is called this.
What is cancer?
300
This is the exchange of segments between homologous chromosomes.
What is crossing over?
300
This is used to calculate the probability of a genotype for a specific allele.
What is a punnett square?
300
There are this many different amino acids.
What is twenty?
300
This is the study the branch of biology that gives one evidence of evolution, that the early stages of all organisms are very similar.
What is embryology?
400
Name the steps of mitosis.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
400
This is the term for the production of gametes.
What is gametogenesis?
400
When many genes interact to produce a phenotype, this occurs.
What is epistasis?
400
These segments of DNA are designed to decrease the chance of mistakes in the final copy by being discarded during translation.
What are introns?
400
One theory of geologic change is uniformitarianism, name the other two.
What are catastrophism and gradualism?
500
______, ___________, and ______ & ___________ are the three reasons for cell division.
What are repair, replacement, and growth & development?
500
This is the term that refers to the set of 4 chromatids in a pair of homologous chromosomes.
What is tetrad?
500
Give one of the two parts of Mendel's law of segregation.
What is each individual inherits two copies of genes OR during formation of gametes, the two copies of a gene separate?
500
These are the nitrogen bases that only have a single ring. (T and C)
What are pyrimidines?
500
The four principles of natural selection, as theorized by Darwin, are...
What are variation, overproduction, adaptation, and decent with modification?
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