Cell Biology
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This is the molecules that carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
This is the scientist who developed the theory of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the system responsible for transporting blood.
What is the cardiovascular or circulatory system?
These are the 4 bases of DNA. (Need letters for credit, bonus if you get chemical names)
What are adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine?
This organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the name for different versions of a gene.
What are alleles?
This is the definition of adaptation.
What is the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment?
This is an example of a bone in the appendicular skeleton.
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This is what DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
This type of cell has no nucleus.
What is prokaryotic?
This is the term for a condition where an individual has two identical alleles for a specific gene. (ex: AA, or aa)
This is an example of a food chain.
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This is a disorder, common in children, that causes bowed legs due to a lack of calcium and vitamin D.
What is rickets?
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
This structure controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This is the chances of getting a recessive trait from two heterozygous parents.
What is 25%?
This is the difference between a producer and a consumer.
What is a producer can make it own food while a consumer has to eat something?
These are the air sacs at the end of bronchioles.
What are alveoli?
These are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
These are two differences between plant and animal cells.
What are plants have cell walls, chloroplasts, central vacuoles, and animals have centrioles, centrosomes, and lysosomes? (any 2)
This is the difference between genotype and phenotype.
What is a genotype is the alleles, and the phenotype is the physical trait?
These are the three types of symbiotic relationships and examples of each.
What are mutualism (ex vary), commensalism (ex var), and parasitism (ex vary)
This is the difference between veins and arteries?
What is arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins carry blood to the heart?
These are the steps of protein synthesis.
What are transcription and translation?