Cell Organelles/Functions
Found in plants, it gives the cell a rigid shape?
What is the cell wall?
Shows relationships between species.
What is a cladogram?
How the dominant gene expressed is indicated when written.
What is with a capital letter
The building blocks of life.
What are cells?
Name one behavioral adaption that may help a species survive.
What is migration, hibernation, social behaviors (hunt in packs, etc)
The power house of the cell, providing the energy it needs to function?
What are the mitochondria?
Inherited characteristics that help an organism survive.
What are adaptations?
Gregor Mendel studied these when researching genetic.
What are pea plants?
Used to predict the occurrence of traits...
What is a Punnett Square?
This shows the relationships and inheritance patterns over multiple generations.
What is a pedigree?
Contains DNA - the coding of life..
What is the nucleus
__________ ___________ is the study of differences and similarities in the structures of different species.
What is Comparative Anatomy?
______ is the passing of traits from parent to offspring.
What is Heredity
Made up of amino acids and needed for all cells to function?
What are Proteins?
Organisms that interbreed and produce fertile off spring belong to the same ____________
What is species?
Plant cells have a large one that stores water.
What is a central vacuole?
A ______ is a unit of heredity, which codes for a specific trait.
What is a Gene?
The expression of a genotype.
What is phenotype?
The process that converts DNA to RNA
What is transcription?
____________ selection is when humans choose traits they prefer in organisms.
What is artificial?
This organelle is the UPS/FedEx of the cell, packaging molecules and other things in the cell for transport.
What is Golgi Apparatus?
The coded information for hair color, eye color, etc. and would be written like Bb, BG or Tt (examples).
What are genotypes?
When alleles occur in are paired in different forms.
What is heterozygous?
When an organism is petrified or cast/molded in stone.
What is a fossil?
Fossils with characteristics from older and newer groups of organisms
What is transitional?