This term describes the physical appearance or observable traits of an organism, determined by its genetic makeup.
What is a phenotype
This process involves the synthesis of RNA using a DNA template.
What is transcription?
This term refers to the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation relative to others
What is evolutionary fitness
This term describes a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
This statistical value measures the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of data values
What is standard deviation?
If a pea plant is heterozygous for purple flowers (Pp), this is the probability that its offspring will have white flowers (pp) when self-pollinated.
What is 25% or 1/4
In prokaryotes, this "switch" is a segment of DNA that controls the access of RNA polymerase to the genes in an operon.
What is an operator?
This type of selection favors individuals at both extremes of a phenotypic range over intermediate phenotypes.
What is disruptive/diversifying selection?
This is the maximum population size that a particular environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity (K)?
You use this statistical test to determine if there is a significant difference between observed and expected data.
What is the Chi-Square test?
This type of inheritance occurs when two different alleles are both fully expressed in the phenotype, such as in AB blood types.
What is codominance?
These non-coding sequences are removed from a pre-mRNA molecule during RNA processing in eukaryotes
What are introns?
This condition of a population occurs when allelic frequencies remain constant from generation to generation (no evolution).
What is Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
In this type of population growth, the per capita rate of increase approaches zero as the population size nears the carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
This formula, is used to calculate this specific type of growth.
What is the logistic growth rate?
These types of genes are located on the same chromosome and tend to be inherited together unless crossing over occurs
What are linked genes
his regulatory protein binds to the operator to block transcription of the operon.
What is a repressor?
This phenomenon occurs when a small group of individuals becomes isolated from a larger population and establishes a new population with a different gene pool.
What is the founder effect
Only about this percentage of energy is typically transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
When calculating Standard Error of the Mean
you divide the standard deviation by this value.
What is the square root of the sample size?
sqrt(n)
n a Chi-Square test for a monohybrid cross with an expected 3:1 ratio and 100 total offspring, this is the Expected (e) value for the recessive phenotype.
What is 25?
This mechanism allows a single gene to encode for multiple different proteins by joining different combinations of exons.
What is alternative RNA splicing?
According to the Hardy-Weinberg equation, if the frequency of the recessive phenotype (q2) is 0.09, this is the frequency of the dominant allele (p).
What is 0.7? Note: q = 0.3,$p + q = 1
These organisms are essential to an ecosystem because they occupy a niche that maintains the community's structure, and their removal would cause the ecosystem to collapse.
What is a keystone species?
In a Chi-Square test, if your calculated value is greater than the critical value at $p=0.05$, you must do this to your null hypothesis.
What is reject the null hypothesis