This type of experiment means that neither the technician or the subject know which group (control or experimental) they're in.
What is a double blind experiment?
100
If life on Mars is fundamentally like life on Earth, it's molecules will be based on this element.
What is carbon?
100
This describes all chemical reactions in the body.
What is metabolism?
100
What type of respiration does the carbon dioxide you exhale come from?
What is aerobic respiration?
200
What makes essential amino acids "essential"?
Our bodies cannot synthesize them.
200
This process of aerobic cellular respiration breaks down glucose.
What is glycolysis?
200
A trait is this if it is often influenced by environmental factors and is controlled by several sets of alleles.
What is polygenic?
200
Imagine that a mutation in a DNA molecule results in the mRNA codon CCU being changed to CCC. Both of these codons code for the amino acid proline. This is an example of what?
What is the redundancy of the genetic code?
200
The spindle fibers form during this phase of mitosis.
What is Prophase?
300
These are the four phases of mitosis, in order.
What are Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase/Celophase?
300
A change in tail length in a salamandor population is an example of this type of evolution.
What is microevolution?
300
This is the recessive genetic disorder we talked about in class.
What is cystic fibrosis?
300
This is the name of a molecule composed of one or more sugars.
What is a carbohydrate?
300
This is the pH of a neutral solution.
What is 7?
400
This is the smallest unit upon which evolution can act.
What is a population?
400
These molecules make up the channels in the plasma membrane that allow molecules to pass into and out of the cell.
What are proteins?
400
This type of DNA contains DNA from more than one type of organism.
What is recombinant DNA?
400
Name four macromolecules.
What are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, amino aicds, water?
400
Dietary fiber is composed of this polysaccharide which cannot be digested in the human body.
What is cellulose?
500
This occurs when the alleles for Type A and Type B blood are both fully expressed when an individual has both alleles.
What is codominance?
500
Tuberculosis is caused by __________ and primarily affects this body part.
Bacteria; lungs.
500
If a cell begins mitosis with 18 chromosomes, there will be _____ chromosomes in each cell after mitosis and each daughter cell will be genetically ____________.
18; identical
500
This is used to make copies of a small amount of DNA.
What is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
500
This is the organelle in a cell which is a network of membranes. Its function is to modify proteins.