Biomolecules
A large molecule that is made up of smaller similar subunits bonded together. For example, a protein or a lego sculpture.
What is a polymer?
The purpose of cell division.
What is to create genetically identical daughter cells?
The name of the scientist who is known as the "father of genetics."
Gregor Mendel
The process by which individuals that are better fit for their environment tend to survive and reproduce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
The study of the way living organisms interact with each other and their environments.
What is ecology?
The four major categories of bio molecules
What are carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids?
The four stages of the cell cycle.
What is gap 1, synthesis, gap 2, and mitosis/cytokinesis?
The different versions of a gene. For example, brown versus blue eyes.
What is an allele?
The scientist who proposed the theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
What is Jean Baptiste Lamarck?
An organism that creates its own energy.
What is a producer? OR What is an autotroph?
The property of water that allows it to have high specific heat, cohesion, and adhesion.
What is polarity? OR what are hydrogen bonds?
The five stages of mitosis.
What is prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
The phenotype of a heterozygote.
What is the dominant phenotype?
Adaptations that have similar purposes but are structurally different.
What are analogous structures?
The five levels of organization to describe an environment.
What is individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome?
The three subunits of a nucleotide.
What is phosphate group, nitrogenous base, and sugar?
The longest phase of the cell cycle.
What is gap 1?
The genotype for a heterozygote.
What is one dominant and one recessive allele? OR What is Aa?
The four principles of natural selection.
What is overproduction, variation, adaptation, and descent with modification?
The three types of symbiosis.
Three *specific* functions of proteins.
What is enzyme catalyst, defense, support, transport, motion, regulation, or storage?
Must name or specifically describe three options.
The number of chromatids present in a human body cell during the gap 2 stage.
What is 92?
The percentage of offspring with the dominant phenotype if a heterozygote is crossed with a homozygous recessive individual.
What is 50%?
Darwin's four branches of evidence for evolution.
What are fossils, geography, embryology, and anatomy?
The major abiotic factors that determine biome distribution.
What is water and temperature?