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Miscellaneous
100
Property of water that is due to its uneven distribution of electrons between oxygen and hydrogen.
What is polarity?
100
Class of organisms that can make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
100
The scientists who discovered the structure of DNA
Who are Watson and Crick?
100
The study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment.
What is ecology?
100
The organism that Mendel used for his famous genetics experiments.
What is the pea plant?
200
The macromolecule used as a source of quick energy
What are carbohydrates?
200
Phase of mitosis where chromosomes align in the middle.
What is metaphase?
200
The definition of evolutionary fitness
What is the ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment?
200
The practice of giving each organism a two-part scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
200
The difference between reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning.
What is reproductive cloning results in a new organism, while therapeutic cloning results in cells or tissues that are used for medicine?
300
Organelle that breaks down waste products in a cell and recycles old organelles.
What is the lysosome?
300
The number of chromosomes in each human cell AFTER meiosis
What is 23?
300
When individuals at the upper and lower ends of the population curve have a higher fitness than those in the middle
What is disruptive selection?
300
The name of the scientist that created the system of classification that we still use today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
300
The acronym for the six most abundant elements on Earth.
What is CHNOPS?
400
Diffusion of water across a semi-permeable membrane
What is osmosis?
400
The two stages of cellular respiration that require oxygen.
What are the Krebs Cycle and the electron transport chain?
400
Two ways that RNA is different than DNA (besides spelling).
What is the type of sugar, RNA is single-stranded, RNA has uracil instead of thymine, and RNA has three main types?
400
A sloth is categorized as this type of heterotroph because its diet consists of leaves, buds, insects, and small reptiles.
What is an omnivore?
400
List the eight taxa, in order, by size. (Can be largest to smallest or smallest to largest.)
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
500
A general term given to anything that lowers the activation energy of a reaction (not enzyme)
What is a catalyst?
500
Stage of cell division where cytoplasm divides
What is cytokinesis?
500
The five conditions required to maintain genetic equilibrium, as outlined by Hardy and Weinberg.
What is random mating, large populations, no movement in or out of the population, no mutations, and no natural selection?
500
List two different processes by which carbon is returned to the atmosphere.
What is respiration, human activity (combustion), volcanic activity, and CO2 from the ocean?
500
The function of the liver.
What is to produce bile, which helps with digestion?