Miscellaneous
What base pairs with A in a molecule of RNA?
What is U?
This type of cell division only happens in body cells.
What is mitosis?
The different forms or versions of a gene.
What are alleles?
A physical or behavioral characteristic that helps an organism to survive better in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
An organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things to survive.
What is a heterotroph?
This macromolecule (nutrient) is the best source of quick energy for your body.
What are carbohydrates?
This type of division produces cells that are unique and different than the parent cell.
What is meiosis?
Having two identical alleles for a particular gene.
What is homozygous?
The reproductive success of an individual or how many surviving offspring they have in their lifetime.
What is fitness?
A behavior that an organism is born knowing how to do. It is instinctual and inherited in the genes.
What is innate behavior?
What is fermentation (anaerobic respiration)?
During this phase of mitosis, the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
What is metaphase?
The observable physical traits of an organism.
What is phenotype?
This evolutionary process happens when the individuals best adapted to their environment are able to produce more surviving offspring.
What is natural selection?
A type of symbiosis where the interaction is beneficial to both organisms.
What is mutualism?
This organelle is responsible for building proteins for the cell.
What is the ribosome?
This is what you call the two versions of a chromosome that you inherit from your mother and father.
What are homologous chromosomes?
Red and white are incompletely dominant in flowers. If you cross an all-red flower with an all-white flower, what will the phenotype(s) of the offspring be?
What are all pink flowers?
An evolutionary process driven by random changes in allele frequency.
What is genetic drift?
Movement toward or away from a stimulus like light, smell, etc…
What is taxis?
An image showing an individual's complete set of chromosomes, which can be used to diagnose genetic disorders.
What is a karyotype?
This is what you call the two copies of a chromosome that get pulled apart during anaphase.
What are sister chromatids?
Black is completely dominant to brown in bears. A brown bear mates with a heterozygous black bear. What percentage of their offspring will be black?
What is 50%?
Body structures that come from a common ancestor but have lost all function.
What are vestigial structures?
A type of symbiosis where the one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?