Mitosis
The first phase of mitosis.
What is prophase?
The site where sister chromatids attach.
What are centromeres?
An example of a greenhouse gas we discussed in class.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, ozone, or nitrous oxide?
The basic structural and functional unit of life.
What is a cell?
The small chunks of DNA that make up the lagging strand in DNA replication.
What are Okazaki fragments?
When homologous chromosomes come together to form a tetrad in Prophase I.
What is synapsis?
The key light capturing pigment that participates directly in light reactions.
What is chlorophyll a?
The chemical formula for the sugar molecule made during photosynthesis
What is C6H12O6
The enzyme that replaces the RNA primer with DNA in DNA replication.
What is metaphase I?
The enzyme that binds the 5 carbon sugar RuBP to carbon dioxide in the Calvin cycle.
What is rubisco (aka RuBP carboxylase-oxygenase)?
A type of plant that opens their stomata at night and incorporates carbon dioxide into organic acids that are stored in the vacuoles.
What are CAM (crassulacean acid metabolism) plants?
The type of cell division used by prokaryotes.
What is binary fission?
The diploid organism seen in plants that makes haploid spores by meiosis.
What is a sporophyte?
The longest wavelength in nm of visible light.
What is 740nm?
The site where crossing over occurs?
What is the chiasmata?
The enzyme that cleaves cohesins in Anaphase, separating centromeres.
What is separase?
Genetic condition when someone has two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome (XXY).
What is Klinefelter syndrome?
Electrons are passed from the primary electron acceptor of PSI down a second electron transport chain to this protein.
What is ferredoxin (aka Fd)?
The separation of cytoplasm that splits the cell in half at the end of meiosis.
What is cytokinesis?