Random Biology
Health and disease analysis
Ecology
Genetics
Evolution
100
The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.
What is osmosis?
100
These are the products of cellular respiration
Water, carbon dioxide, and ATP
100
Which organisms have the most available energy in a food pyramid?
Producers
100
These simple molecules form the basis of all proteins
What are amino acids?
100
A branching diagram used to show relatedness among species
what is a cladogram
200
The four phases of mitosis
what is Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
200
The formula for photosynthesis
CO2 + H2O —> C6H12O6 + O2
200
A students observes a cell where the chromosomes appear to be pulled apart by spindle fibers. These two final steps would come after this.
What are telophase and cytokinesis?
200
A biomolecule that serves as a fast source of energy?
What are carbohydrates?
200
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation
300
This process produces four genetically unique cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as in the parent
what is meiosis?
300
movement of ions, and molecules across cell membranes without the need for energy input
What is passive transport?
300
The are factors in an ecosystem that have never been living ex: rocks
what are abiotic factors?
300
The stage in meiosis 1 where crossing over occurs to create genetically different chromosomes from the originals
What is prophase 1?
300
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is natural selection
400
This RNA is transcribed from a section of DNA and later leaves the nucleus in order to be translated into an amino acid chain.
What is mRNA?
400
Water molecules have attractive forces to one another and are held together by these types of weaker bonds
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
If the producers contain 10,000 Kcal, then how much energy will the secondary consumers contain?
What is 100 Kcal?
400
the three parts of a nucleotide
what is deoxyribose sugar, Nitrogen base, and phosphate group.
400
Organs/parts many animals still have but are no longer used.
What are vestigial structures?
500
This is the process by which organisms break down glucose, without the use of oxygen, to create ATP
What is anaerobic cellular respiration?
500
The minimum quantity of energy that is required to activate atoms or molecules to a condition in which they undergo a specified reaction.
What is activation energy?
500
A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
What is a keystone species?
500
Sickle cell anemia is a recessive disease. If you cross two parents with the alleles Aa x Aa, what are their children's chances of having sickle cell anemia?
What is 25% have sickle cell?
500
The legs of crocodiles and cats have similar bone structures and develop in a similar way which indicates a common ancestor. What type of structures are the leg bones?
What are homologous structures?