Cells!
Genetics!
Evolution & Classification!
Processes & Systems!
Environmental Systems
200

Name all three parts of a nucleotide!

phosphate, 5-carbon sugar, and nitrogen base

200

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What process does diagram 2 best represent? 

Transcription!

200

NAME ALL 6 KINGDOMS!! :)

Animalia, Plantae, Protista, Fungi, Archae, Eubacteria

200
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B

200

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An environmental change that removed which of these organisms from the ecosystem would cause the most instability in the ecosystem?

CHOICES: Auklets, Foxes, Salmon, Zooplankton

Zooplankton

200

A scientist measures a cell before and after a particular cell cycle event. She notices that the overall mass of all DNA in the cell is 4.2 before the event, and is 8.4 after the event. Which specific event in the cell cycle is this most likely to be?

S phase (within interphase)

200

An individual with the genotype AaBB mates with an individual with the genotype Aabb. If they have a total of 8 offspring, what number out of those 8 offspring would you expect to have the genotype AABb?

2 out of the 8 would have the genotype AABb

200

Which kingdom does this most likely belong to:

heterotrophic, multicellular, cell wall, has a nucleus

Fungi

200

Three-spined sticklebacks that harbor a tapeworm are less likely to perform courtship behavior correctly and are less successful reproducing. Which kind of symbiotic relationship does this most likely represent? 

parasitism

200

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C

300

A cell has 18 chromosomes. After mitosis it would have ___ chromosomes and ___ chromatids. After meiosis it would have ___ chromosomes and ___ chromatids. 

After mitosis -> 18 chromosomes, 18 chromatids

After meiosis -> 9 chromosomes, 9 chromatids

300

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F

300

What is the specific term we use in evolutionary biology to refer to how well an organism is able to survive and reproduce in a particular environment?

fitness

300

Answer both parts of the question:

1. What are the monomers of proteins?

2. On what molecule would I find a codon?

amino acid - mRNA

300

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G

400

What is the main difference between the lytic and lysogenic cycles, and what kind of molecule do these cycles relate to?

lytic immediately lyses the cell, lysogenic inserts the virus's DNA into the host cell's genome - viruses! :)

400

*see image on slide for Genetics 400*

D

400

DAILY DOUBLE!

This is worth DOUBLE the normal amount of points:)

If two organisms have structures that have slightly different functions but are similarly in shape and form, these would be ___ structures because they (do/do not) share a recent common ancestor.

homologous - do

400

SURPRISE! This one is a free square BUT - your team must choose one other team to gift these 400 points to, right now :)

:)

400

In an ecosystem, grasshoppers eat the grass and flowers. Owls eat mice and snakes, while snakes eat mice and mice eat grass.

The snake in this ecosystem is a ______ consumer, and is considered to be a(n) (herbivore, omnivore, carnivore).

secondary - carnivore

500

DAILY DOUBLE! 

This is worth DOUBLE the normal amount of points:)

*see image on slide for Cells 500*

F

500

The enzyme ____ unwinds DNA, the enzyme ___ unzips DNA, and the enzyme ____ adds nucleotides together to make more DNA. All of this happens during the process of _____.

topoisomerase - helicase - DNA polymerase - DNA replication

500

Fossils show that cyanobacteria evolved at least 3.5 billion years ago.  How did cyanobacteria change Earth's environment?

they added oxygen to the atmosphere!

500

Animals respond to threats in their environment by attacking or escaping. Either response is the result, mostly, of interactions between_____ and ____.

CHOICES: circulatory, reproductive, digestive, integumentary, endocrine, muscular, respiratory, immune

endocrine & muscular

500

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G