Units 1-3
Give another name for the cell membrane.
What is...
The Phospholipid Bilayer OR Plasma Membrane OR Lipid Bilayer
When looking at a chemical reaction, substrates that are formed are on the right side of the arrow and are called ____________.
What is products?
The number of nitrogenous bases in a codon.
What is 3?
The term for a species that occurs in the area naturally, without human intervention
The acronym used to help remember the stages of mitosis.
What is PMAT?
Name the monomer of protein.
What is amino acids?
The name of the protein that unwinds the DNA during DNA replication.
What is helicase?
Any cell in the body EXCEPT for sperm or egg cells (pollen or egg in plants)
What is a somatic cell?
The amount of energy that is passed on to the next tropic level.
What is 10%?
The term for a species that has a disproportionately large effect on community structure. This species is usually in the top trophic level (predator).
What is a keystone species?
The type of macromolecule that enzymes are.
What is a protein?
DNA and RNA differ in what nitrogenous bases.
What is
DNA has Thymine where RNA has Uracil?
The name of the process where DNA is copied into RNA.
What is transcription?
The type of selection where environmental selective pressures select against the two extremes of a trait, the population experiences stabilizing selection. This means that natural selection is selecting for or favoring the intermediate/average/medium trait
Give the name for the type of diffusion that the use of TRANSPORT PROTEINS to HELP the solute move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration!
What is facilitated diffusion?
The term for movement of a solute from a level of high concentration to an area of low concentration where the solutes are small enough to fit through the phospholipid bilayer.
The phase of the cell cycle where DNA is replicated.
What is
Interphase more specifically S phase.
The term describing the genotype of an organism with two of the same alleles for a gene
What is homozygous?
What is near the equator?
Describe secondary ecological succession.
What is when you start with some (small amount of) life in an ecosystem and then eventually more and more life colonizes that area
List the 3 parts of the Cell theory.
What is
All living things (organisms) are made of cells.
All existing cells are produced by other living cells. (Cells come from other cells!!)
The cell is the smallest, most basic unit of life.
List the 3 factors that can affect the rate of photosynthesis.
What is...
1. Temperature
2. CO2 concentration
3. Light Intensity
Give an example of an incomplete dominant trait.
What is anything where the heterozygous genotype is a BLEND of the 2 possible PHENOTYPES?
A type of reproductive isolation that occurs when populations breed/mate at different times of the year, month, week, or even day. This reproductively isolates the two groups from each other.
What is temporal isolation?
List the levels of organization of all living things (cells to biosphere)
What is...
cells, tissue, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, biosphere