Snakes live under a ramp in front of my house. This is an...
What is observation
100
The primary source of energy on the biosphere is the...
What is the Sun
100
The organelle that is responsible for aerobic cellular respiration in eukaryotes
What is the mitochondrion
100
The monomer of this biomacromolecule are amino acids
What are proteins
100
A variation of a gene
What is an allele
200
To be useful in science a hypothesis must be
What is testable
200
The effect that occurs on toxins as it progresses through tropic levels.
What is biomagnification
200
The structure that gives a rough ER its distinction.
What are ribosomes
200
The reaction that takes place to break polymers down into their monomers
What is hydrolysis
200
An error where one nucleotide is replaced by another nucleotide but does not effect the amino acid sequence
What is a silent mutation
300
How does an observation about an object differ from an inference about the object
What is an observation only uses 5 senses, an inference includes prior knowledge
300
If a flower is eaten by a rabbit, what trophic level is the flower?
What is primary producer
300
This cellular structure insures that a plant cell will not lyse in a hypotonic solution.
What is the cell wall.
300
This biomacromolecule functions by lowering the activation energy of a chemical reaction.
What is an enzyme
300
What percentage of offspring would express the recessive trait if both parents are heterozygous?
What is 25%
400
Why does it make sense for scientists to test just one variable at a time in an experiment?
What is to determine the effect of each variable independently of each other
400
The relationship between a hummingbird and a flower (where the hummingbird feeds off nectar of the flower and also carries pollen between flowers) is an example of what type of relationship?
What is mutualism
400
In the absence of oxygen a cell will undergo this process to generate ATP
What is anaerobic cellular respiration
400
The three parts of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate group, a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), and a nitrogenous base (A,T,G,C,U)
400
The part of the mRNA that is cut out during transcription.
What are introns
500
A scientific theory is...
What is a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations
500
If grass starts with 234 KJ of energy and is eaten by a cow, which is eaten by a wolf, how much energy would make it to the wolf?
What is 2.34 KJ
500
What organelle is responsible for producing the phospholipid bilayer?
What is the SER
500
The polymer a plant cell uses for energy storage
What is starch
500
How does a deletion mutation differ from a substitution mutation?