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Cell Biology
Genetics
Anatomy and Physiology
Evolution and Biodiversity
Ecology
100
The portion of the cell outside the nucleus
What is the cytoplasm?
100
The 'm' in mRNA
What is messenger?
100
Primary organ of the circulatory system
What is the heart?
100
Structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissues
What are homologous structures?
100
A relationship in which two species live closely together
What is symbiosis?
200
This man used one of the earliest microscopes to identify cells in corks
Who is Robert Hooke?
200
The 't' in tRNA
What is transfer?
200
Smallest of the blood vessels
What are capillaries?
200
A bird watcher, also a graduated teacher
Who is Mr. Huston?
200
Non-living factors that shape ecosystems
What are abiotic factors?
300
The site where lipid components of the cell membrane are assembled, along with proteins and other materials that are exported from the cell
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
300
Changes in the genetic material
What are mutations?
300
This organ stores urine before it is excreted
What is the urinary bladder?
300
Information about past life, including the structure of organisms, what they ate and where they lived, etc.
What is the fossil record?
300
The natural situation in which heat is retained by a layer of greenhouse gases
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
The function of this organelle is to modify, sort, and package proteins or other materials for storage or excretion
What is the Golgi apparatus?
400
The process during which the cell uses information from mRNA to produce protiens
What is protein synthesis or translation?
400
Period of rapid growth and sexual maturation during which the reproductive system becomes fully functional
What is puberty?
400
Distinctive fossils used to compare the relative ages of fossils
What are index fossils?
400
Each step in a food chain or food web
What is a trophic level?
500
Separate roles for each type of cell in a multicellular organsim
What is cell specialization?
500
Organisms that are ______ contain genes from other species
What is transgenic?
500
The functional units of the kidney
What are nephrons?
500
Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations
What is genetic drift?
500
Organisms that feed on plant and animal remains and other dead matter
What are detritivores?