Random Biology
What type of blood vessel carries oxygenated blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
a movement of ions and other atomic or molecular substances across cell membranes without need of energy input
What is passive transport or diffusion?
____________is the splitting of the cytoplasm in cell division.
cytokinesis
What is the name of the process by which scientists create copies of an organism’s DNA, cell, or entire organism?
What is cloning?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
These simple molecules are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is the skin?
These are the waste products of cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide and water?
The three organelles contained in a plant cell but not an animal cell
What is Cell wall, central vacuole, chloroplast?
Name the type of microorganism that lacks a nucleus and is single-celled.
What is a prokaryote?
What is the product for photosynthesis.
C6H12O6 + O2
What is the process by which cells take in water through osmosis called?
What is passive transport?
These fats only contain single bonds.
What are saturated fats?
What term describes the formation of a new species as a result of evolution?
What is speciation?
Structures that serve similar functions in organisms that are not evolutionarily related.
What are analogous structures?
TWhat is the term for a reaction where molecules are broken down by the addition of water?
What is hydrolysis?
What part of the brain is responsible for coordinating voluntary movements and balance?
What is the cerebellum?
What is the name of the scientist who proposed the theory of natural selection?
Who is Charles Darwin?
The legs of crocodiles and mice have similar bone structures and develop in a similar way. What type of structures are the leg bones?
What are homologous structures?
The functional units of membranes that allow them to be selectively permeable.
What are proteins and phospholipids?
What is Mutation
What is the term for the exchange of gases between the air and the blood in the lungs?
What is external respiration?
What is the name of the process where a protein loses its shape and function due to external factors like temperature or pH?
What is denaturation?
Sickle cell anemia is a recessive disease. If you cross two parents with the alleles Aa x Aa, what are the chances their children will have sickle cell anemia?
25%