Ecosystems
Organisms that make their own food
What are autotrophs or producers?
Expands when freezes, universal solvent, cohesive, and adhesive
What are the properties of water?
Cells that do not have a defined nucleus or organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Found in all living organisms
What is DNA?
The birthplace of mankind
What is Africa?
Amount of energy lost at each trophic level
What is 90 percent?
Must have the proper pH and temperature to function
What are enzymes?
Occurs on the ribosome
What is protein sysnthesis?
Process that forms gametes
What is meiosis?
The process through which evolution occurs
What is natural selection?
In a food chain, a rabbit would be
What is a primary consumer?
Processes involved in cycling carbon within an environment
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
The two stages of protein synthesis
What are transcription and translation?
Occurs when both alleles are expressed
What is codominance?
Performed an experiment showing how life may have started on Earth.
Who were Miller & Urey?
Energy _________ through an ecosystem while matter is ___________.
What is flows and recycled?
The four macromolecules are
Proteins, Lipids, Carbohydrates, and Nucleic Acids
The three parts of the cell theory
What are all living things consist of cells, the cell is the smallest unit of life, and all cells come from other cells.
The addition or deletion of a base to a DNA strand can cause a
What is a frameshift mutation?
Gives a species the ability to evolve
What is genetic variation?
Changes atmospheric nitrogen to form that plants can use.
What are bacteria?
Produced when anaerobic respiration occurs in muscles
What is lactic acid?
The energy currency of the cell
What is ATP?
The probability of heterozygous brown eyed parents having a blue-eyed child
What is 25%
The 8 levels of taxonomy
What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species