Cell Organelles and Processes
A thin, flexible barrier around the cell?
What is the cell membrane
A polymer is composed of what?
Monomers
Describe a population
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem
Two things that happen in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
What animals did Charles Darwin observe that helped lead him to his theory of evolution- and what did he notice about these animals?
What is either finches beaks or tortoise shells
What is the organelle that is a ball with nuclear pores on it?
What is nucleus
What are the monomers of proteins, and how many are there?
Amino Acids 20
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
A group of genetically similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
What is the organelle in which the components of the cell membrane are assembled and some proteins are modified?
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum
What kind of carbohydrates function as long-term energy storage?
Polymers/Polysaccharides = starch, vegetables, grains, bread
Describe an ecosystem
What is an area of land and all the living and nonliving things that interact within it.
The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
Type of diagram that shows the relationship of organisms to their ancestors as well as common ancestry.
What is a phylogenetic/evolutionary tree?
What organelle is a stack of rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes?
What is the golgi apparatus
Name one factor that can affect how well an enzyme works
Temperature, pH (acid/base solution), Substrate concentration, Denatured enzyme
Two types of adaptations
What is physical and behavioral
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
When organisms try to get their fair share of a limited amount of resources.
What is competition?
What is the small dense region that makes up most nuclei
What is nucleolus
What is the function of nucleic acids?
Code for traits; heredity
What are two examples of how animals adapt to cold weather?
What is hibernating, gathering food, getting a thick coat of fur, black skin, etc.
The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
The vocab word that means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earlier forms over long periods of time.
What is evolution?