Genetics
Evolution
DNA/RNA/Protein Synthesis
Ecology
The Cell Cycle
100
Genetic makeup of an organism
What is genotype
100
change over time
What is evolution
100
the 4 nitrogen bases found in DNA
What is Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine
100
The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environement, or surroundings
What is ecology
100
The process by which a cell divides into two new daughter cells
What is cell division
200
Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait (TT or tt)
What is homozygous
200
preserved remains of ancient organisms
What is fossils
200
DNA's location in eukaryotes
What is the nucleus
200
Part of earth in which life exists including land, water and air or atmosphere
What is biosphere
200
A human body cell entering cell division, contains this number of chromosomes
What is 46
300
the transferring of pollen between plants
What is cross-pollination
300
the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment
What is fitness
300
The two scientists that discovered the structure of DNA and the year
Who is James Watson and Francis Crick
300
provides strong evidence that four limbed animals that have descended, have same embryotic tissues
What is homologous structures
300
Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase
What are the four phases of mitosis
400
Some alleles are dominant and others are recessive
What is the principle of dominance
400
members of each species compete to obtain food, living space, and other necessities
What is struggle for existance
400
How Rosalind Franklin's research contributed to determining the shape of DNA
What is by the x-ray diffraction
400
process that releases nitrogen into the atmosphere
What is denitrification
400
Sister chromatids separate, becoming individual chromosomes
What is anaphase
500
Genes for different traits can segregate independently during the formation of gametes
What is Mendel's principle of independent assortment
500
selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms
What is artificial selection
500
There are more than one combination
Why is it possible for an amino acid to be specified by more than one codon
500
when certain types of bacteria which live in the soil and on roots of plants, convert nitrogen gas into ammonia
What is nitrogen fixation
500
Two genetically identical diploid daughter cells
What is the end product of mitosis