Genetics
Gene pairings with mixed alleles
What is a heterozygous pairing?
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, and Uracil are all Nitrogenous _______.
What are bases?
Inherited characteristics that typically boost an organism's fitness.
What is an adaption?
What are bacteria and archaea
The scientist who recorded x-ray images of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The plants in Mendel's garden
What are peas
Mutations that involve one changing a single base.
What is a point mutation
This form of evolution results in creation of a new species.
What is macroevolution?
An organism that absorbs sunlight for energy but consumes matter for food.
What is Photoheterotroph?
The scientist responsible for Chargaff's Rule
Who is Erwin Chargaff
When both alleles are equally expressed, they are considered _____
What is codominant?
Mutations that involve inserting/removing a base.
What is a frameshift mutation?
Breeding of specific dogs to produce new, desirable pets.
What is artificial selection?
Bacteria use their flagellum for this.
What is movement?
This scientist(s) built the first accurate DNA model.
When a combination of phenotypes are expressed, the organism is displaying _______
Incomplete dominance
A healthy amount of chromosomes.
What are 46?
Only the fastest animals escaping a predator is an example of:
Survival of the fittest//natural selection
The way in which bacteria reproduce
What is binary fission?
The scientist who proposed that humans will run out of resources.
Who is Malthus
The codominant blood type is:
The dominant blood types are:
The recessive blood type is:
1. AB
2. AA AO BB BO
3. OO
What is ribosomal/messenger/transfer
Darwin's Book
What is On the Origin of Species?
A virus has a protein coat (capsid) around this important feature.
What is the DNA/RNA core?
This scientist proposed the first hypothesis on evolution.
Who is Lamarck?