Cells
The kind of cells that do NOT have a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
This system of interconnected food chains demonstrates how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
What is a food web?
Occurs when a natural disaster destroys a large percentage of a population resulting in less variation.
What is the Bottleneck Effect?
This scientist is considered the Father of Genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The genetic material inside our cells that contains the instructions for making proteins.
What is DNA?
Transport through a cell membrane that requires energy.
What is active transport?
This type of population growth occurs rapidly and is not affected by limiting factors.
What is exponential growth?
This theory states that organisms best suited to their environment will survive and reproduce, thus passing that favorable trait on to the next generation.
What is Natural Selection?
What is homozygous dominant?
DNA is not able to leave the nucleus. A strand of mRNA is created to copy the information and deliver it to the ribosome in this process.
What is transcription?
The type of cellular reproduction that creates 4 unique haploid daughter cells.
What is meiosis?
This level describes the maximum amount of organisms that can survive in a given area based on the resources available at that time.
What is the carrying capacity?
Cladograms are tools used to study phylogeny. All cladograms make this same assumption.
What is the presence of a common ancestor?
Neither parent's allele was strong enough to be dominant in this case. The heterozygous form will look like a blend of the parents.
What is incomplete dominance?
The type of cell division that occurs in order to create gametes that will result in increased variation among individuals in a population.
What is meiosis?
This is the theory that states that a photosynthetic prokaryotic cell probably was engulfed by another prokaryotic cell in order to make the first eukaryotic cell.
What is the Theory of Endosymbiosis?
The microorganisms that live inside a termite to help it digest wood are demonstrating this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualistic?
This may occur in populations that become separated over time due to a change in the geography of the land.
What is speciation?
In this Law Mendel explains that when gametes are created, they will separate from one another so that each parent contributes an equal amount of genetic material to the offspring.
What is the Law of Segregation?
All passive transport occurs in order to try to eliminate the difference in concentrations between any two areas. Name this difference.
What is a concentration gradient?
These three statements make up the Cell Theory.
What are:
Cells are the basic unit of life
Cells come from pre-existing cells and '
All living things are made of one or more cells?
These cellular processes are critical in cycling Carbon and Oxygen between organisms that their environment.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
The type of selection that favors those organisms that have extreme versions of the phenotype. For example, the black moth and the white moth, but NOT the peppered moth.
What is disruptive selection?
In a dihybrid cross, the parents' alleles separate. These 4 allele possibilities are able to come from a parent with the genotype AaTt.
What is AT, At, aT and at?
These three types of molecules are embedded between the phosphlipids in the cell memebrane.
What are carbohydrates, proteins and cholesterol?