INHERITED TRAITS AND GENETICS
What are the 2 types of alleles?
Dominant and recessive
DNA is used as the instructions for making what?
Proteins
We are unicellular, prokaryotic, found everywhere except in harsh environments, and we are some of the most studied organisms on Earth.
Eubacteria
What is the term for a body part or behavior that helps an organism survive better in its environment? (EX: quills on a porcupine)
What are the structures found in the nucleus that contain the genetic information?
Chromosomes
What is the name for a segment of DNA that codes for a particular characteristic in an organism?
Genes
Who discovered the structure of DNA?
James Watson and Fransis Crick
We are multicellular, eukaryotic, and we absorb our food.
Fungi
What are 2 out of the 5 topics that are evidence of evolution?
Fossil Record, Homologous Body Structures, Vestigial Organs, Embryology, DNA Evidence.
What is it called when homologous chromosomes exchange sections of DNA?
Crossing over
What is the term for physical characteristics?
Phenotype
DNA replication occurrs during which phase of the cell cycle?
interphase
We are multicellular, we can move at some point in our life, and we digest our food internally.
Animalia
Who is the "Father of Evolution"?
Charles Darwin
The sister chromatids are pulled apart and move to opposite sides of the cell during which part if meiosis?
Anaphase
What are traits controlled by more than one gene called?
Polygenic traits
What is one way DNA is different from RNA?
DNA is double stranded, uses deoxyribose and thymine. RNA is single stranded, uses ribose and uracil.
Most of us are eukaryotic, we are usually found in aquatic environments, and we cannot be classified as animal, plant, or fungus.
Protista
What islands were important in the development of the theory of evolution?
Galapagos Islands
In what phase of mitosis does the sister chromatids line up in the middle of the cell?
Metaphase
What is the term for having two different alleles for a trait? (Bb)
heterozygous
Name one of the 3 parts that make up a nucleotide
Deoxyribose sugar
Phosphate group
Nitrogen base
We are found in extreme environments, we unicellular and we are made up of prokaryotes.
Archaebacteria
What are useless, shrunken structures that apear to be the residual parts of a past ancestor?
Vestigial Structures
What is the term for a cell with two sets of chromosomes? (2N)
Diploid