Mitosis and Meiosis
The meaning of PMAT
What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
The father of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The thing that "filters" nutrients, gases, and wastes from the mom to the baby
What is the placenta?
What is the chloroplast?
What adenine pairs up with in RNA
What is uracil?
In meiosis, this produces genetic diversity
When a gene has two different alleles
What is heterozygous?
The main gonad for the male human
What is testis?
What the human body does to make ATP when it does not have enough oxygen
What is lactic acid fermentation?
(USUALLY) carries oxygen-poor blood away from the heart
What are veins?
These things are similar in size, shape, and contain the same genes at the same locations (but they can have different alleles for those genes).
What are homologous pairs?
Mendel discovered that separate genes cannot influence each other
What is independent assortment?
Where the sperm meets the egg
What is the fallopian tube (oviduct)?
The three things that are needed for photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water?
Breaks down fats and is secreted in the gall bladder
What is bile?
The time when the two daughter cells split apart (completely) in mitosis
What is cytokinesis?
What scientists use to "cut" the DNA when trying to genetically modify an organism
What are restriction enzymes?
Where the sperm matures
What is the epidydymis?
The stage that produces the most ATP (32) in cellular respiration
What is the electron transport chain?
Directly branches off the trachea
What are bronchi?
The process of cell division in prokaryotic cells
What is binary fission?
When two alleles are not completely dominant over one another and results in a blended phenotype
What is incomplete dominance?
The three layers of an embryo (in order from out to in) when it is about to differentiate
What is ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm?
What is glycolysis?