Cell Biology
Genetics
General Biology
Anatomy & Physiology
Misc.
100

By definition, prokaryotic cells do not possess this. 

What is a nucleus?

100

T or F: For X-linked dominant traits, all daughters of an affected male will inherit the trait.

True

100

This is the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring; the process by which species evolve over time.

What is natural selection?

100

Groups of cells that are similar in structure and perform a common or related function form this.

What is tissue?

100

Name for a fertilized egg.

What is a zygote?

200

T or F: the mitotic spindle helps segregate the chromosomes to the two daughter cells

True

200

This is the name for virus-mediated DNA recombination.

What is transduction?

200

This is the term for a relatively unspecialized cell that can reproduce itself indefinitely and differentiate into specialized cells of one or more types

What is a stem cell?

200

This type of feedback loop reduces the change in physiological processes.

What is a negative feedback loop?

200

Name for the life cycle of some plants and algae.

What is alternation of generations?

300

T or F: Most of the peptide bonds are oriented in the cis-configuration.

False

300

Three mechanisms that contribute to genetic variation.

What is independent assortment, crossing over, and  random fertilization?

300

What makes a virus nonliving?

-no organelles to take in nutrients or use energy
-cannot make proteins
-cannot replicate on their own

300

Cells in the human body can be assembled into these four tissue types.


What is connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous tissue?

300

Protein complexes that allow sister chromatids of a single chromosome to stay together through Meiosis I.

What are cohesins?

400

This type of junction involves a connection to the actin cytoskeleton.

What is a gap junction?

400

Loss of genetic variation when a new colony is established by a small number of individuals from a larger population

Founder Effect

400

All animals with bilateral symmetry have this many germ layer(s).

What is three?

400

This muscle extends the leg at the knee joint and is innervated by the femoral nerve (L3 and L4)

Quadriceps Femoris (Quads)

400

This is the term for cancer spreading into malignant growths outside of it's primary site. 

What is metastasis?

500

This term is used to describe a thin- sheet like meshwork of extracellular matrix components that can be found in epithelial cells.

What is a Basal Lamina?

500

This condition exists when an organism gains or loses one or more chromosomes but not a complete haploid set.

What is Aneuploidy?

500

Prokaryotes found inhabiting the Great Salt Lake would be this kind of organism.

What is extreme halophiles?
500

The heart lies in this cavity.

What is pericardial (or thoracic)?

500

What occurs in crossing over and what is the region on the tetrad called?

Nonsister chromatids of homologous chromosomes exchange DNA segments; X-shaped chiasmata