DNA Punnett Square
This term describes the physical expression of traits, such as dark hair or tall.
What is a Phenotype?
This system, including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, acts as the body's control center.
What is the Nervous System?
The process that results in new cells with genetic material that is identical to the original cell.
What is mitosis?
This property causes water molecules to stick to each other, allowing insects to walk on water.
What is cohesion?
This is the primary function of an enzyme in a chemical reaction.
What is speed up the reaction (or lower activation energy)?
When two heterozygous (big B little b) parents are crossed, what are all the possible genotypes of the offspring?
What are BB, Bb, and bb?
These are the three main types of blood vessels
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
The type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, producing four genetically unique haploid cells.
What is meiosis
This property allows water to climb up the stems of plants against gravity.
What is capillary action?
This is the specific location on an enzyme where the substrate binds.
What is the active site?
Two purple flowers are crossed, resulting in 3 purple flowers and 1 white flower. Which trait is dominant, white or purple?
What is purple?
This organ system removes waste from the body using kidneys and the bladder.
What is the excretory (or urinary) system?
The process in meiosis that ensures genetic variation by exchanging genetic material between non-sister chromatids.
What is crossing over?
This is the chemical formula for water, made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
What is H2O?
This term describes the loss of an enzyme’s shape and function due to high temperatures or extreme pH.
What is denaturation?
The nucleotides, or building blocks, of DNA are represented by these 4 letters
What are A,T,C,G ?
The adult human skeletal system consists of this many bones
What is 206?
If a somatic cell with 46 chromosomes undergoes mitosis, this is the number of chromosomes each daughter cell will have.
What is 46?
This term refers to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of water, which helps regulate climate.
What is high specific heat?
This "lock and key" term describes that enzymes only work with specific substrates.
What is substrate specificity?
In monsters, horns are dominant, and no horn is recessive. A Punnett Square showing the cross between a monster that is homozygous dominant and one that is homozygous recessive will show what genotype for all offspring?
What is Heterozygous (or Hh)?
This glandular organ, crucial for developing immune cells (T-cells), begins to shrink at puberty.
What is the Thymus?
These specialized reproductive cells are produced through meiosis, not mitosis.
What are gametes (or sperm/egg)?
This is the process of water vapor changing into liquid water, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
This is the term for a non-protein molecule, such as a vitamin or metal ion, that binds to an enzyme to help it function.
What is a cofactor (or coenzyme)?