Macromolecules
The monomer for a carbohydrate
What is a glucose, or monosaccharide?
Two differences between prokaryote and eukaryote
What is the presence/absence of a nucleus? What is the presence/absence of membrane-bound organelles? What are the sizes of the cells? etc....
Plants may have thorns or spines?
What are mechanical defenses?
The four eukaryotic kingdoms.
What are animals, plants, fungi, and protists?
The definition of homozygous alleles.
What is having two of the same alleles for a gene?
Delilah is attempting to identify a molecule in her biology class. She notices that this molecule has a distinct pattern of Nitrogen-Carbon-Carbon molecules and is created by amino acids. What is this macromolecule?
What is a protein?
This is the organelle that provides the site of protein synthesis.
What are ribosomes?
Two organelles that are unique to plants.
What are chloroplasts and cell walls?
Two factors that can lead to population decline.
What are Emigration and Deaths?
An example is height and eye color and it follows a bell curve if graphed.
What is a polygenic trait?
This macromolecule provides long term energy storage for animals that hibernate in the winter.
What is a lipid?
This organelle helps animal cells breakdown and recycle molecules.
What is a lysosome?
The reason plants lean or grow toward sunlight.
What is thigmotropism?
A wolf only eats little pigs. The pig population would increase if a disease wipes out the much of the population of wolves. As the wolf population increased, the pig population would decrease. This cycle will continue.
What is the predator/prey relationship?
The scientist who had too much time on his hands and studied the colors and textures of pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This macromolecule has a 1:2:1 ratio of carbon:hydrogen:oxygen
What is a carbohydrate?
The three parts of the cell theory.
What are 1) all living things are made of cells, 2) all cells come from pre-existing cells, and 3) cells are the basic unit of life?
The ways plants can reproduce.
What is sexual or asexual?
homologous structures, embryology, and vestigial structures
What are evidences of common ancestry or evolution?
This type of mutation includes insertions and deletions and causes all sequences after the mutation to shift.
What is a frameshift mutation?
The three components of a nucleotide.
What is a sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base?
The golgi apparatus, ribosomes, nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum are all involved in this process.
What is protein synthesis?
Some plants are poisonous or taste bitter.
What is chemical defense?
This is a way to determine the age of a fossil using half-life.
What is radiometric or absolute dating?
Two healthy parents carry the recessive allele of a genetic disease. What is the chance that each of their children may have the disease?
What is 25% or 1/4?