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Cell Structures and Processes
Evolution and Diversity
Organismal/Behavioral
Genetics
Ecology
100
A bean shaped organelle with two membranes that makes ATP from glucose. Was once a free-living prokaryote.
What is a mitochondrion?
100
The change in the genetic makeup of a population due to chance.
What is genetic drift?
100
Type of conditioning in which a behavior is enforced with positive or negative reinforcement.
What is operant conditioning?
100
Law that states that organisms inherit two copies of each gene, one from each parent, and organisms donate only one copy of each gene in their gametes.
What is the law of segregation?
100
Type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
200
Organelle that sends, sorts, packages, and stabilizes proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
200
A mechanism by which organisms with beneficial adaptations have more offspring on average than other individuals.
What is natural selection?
200
Theory that proposes that the physical properties of water allow the rise of water through the plant.
What is the cohesion-tension theory?
200
Process by which four haploid cells result from one diploid cell.
What is meiosis?
200
A biome where -Temperatures are warm throughout the year, with definite dry and rainy seasons. -Vegetation includes tall grasses with scattered trees and shrubs. -Hoofed animals, such as gazelles and other herbivores, dominate this biomes.
What is a tropical grassland?
300
Process by which glucose is broken down in the presence of oxygen.
What is cellular respiration?
300
Genes that no longer serve a purpose, but once had a function, such as genes that code for tooth enamel in toothless whales.
What is a psuedogene?
300
Flexible skeletal support rod embedded in an animal's back.
What is a notochord?
300
Process by which an mRNA message is converted into a polypeptide.
What is translation?
300
A species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
400
The process by which carbon dioxide and energy from the light-dependent reactions are used to create simple sugars.
What is the Calvin Cycle?
400
Model in which a population is not evolving.
What is the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
400
Type of behavior in which an animal seems to sacrifice itself for other animals of its social group.
What is altruism?
400
Three letter nucleotide sequence that codes for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
400
Type of growth where a population size increases dramatically over a period of time.
What is exponential growth?
500
The process by which cells take in large particles. A type of endocytosis.
What is phagocytosis?
500
Pattern where bursts of evolutionary activity are followed by long periods of stability.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
500
Groups of cells that form new tissues in plants.
What is a meristem tissue?
500
The tendency of certain genes on the same chromosome to be inherited together.
What is gene linkage?
500
A model that shows complex feeding relationships and the flow of energy within and sometimes beyond an ecosystem.
What is a food web?