Life Hacking
All of Us
Tinkering Through Time
Survival of the Fittest
Time Travel
100

Any organism that has genes of a different organism present due to bioengineering

Transgenic

100

The study of all expressed proteins within a genome

Proteomics

100

One of Darwin's observations about species.

Species are adapted

Life is diverse

There is unity of life

100

A force that causes a phenotype to be more favorable

Selective/environmental pressure

100

In order for life to be created, you first needed synthesis of these

Organic Molecules

200

The process done to amplify sequences of DNA so that they can be studied

PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)

200

The category of organisms with smallest overall genomes

Prokaryotes (Bacteria & Archaea)

200

Types of structures with no current use that point to common ancestry

vestigial

200

A contributor to genetic variation among prokaryotic populations

mutation, transduction, conjugation, transformation

200

The type of speciation done through the dividing of tectonic plates

Allopatric

300

The enzyme that can be manipulated to make edits within the human genome

Cas9

300

Genes that are shared among wide groups of organisms are referred to as this

Highly Conserved

300

One contributing factor to natural selection

overproduction, variation, adaptation, competition, differential reproductive success

300

Type of natural selection in which phenotypes on the opposite ends of a phenotypic spectrum are selected for survival

Disruptive

300

A figure constructed to show ancestral lineage

Phylogenetic Tree OR Cladogram

400

The DNA technology that combines human DNA with bacterial DNA to produce desired products

Recombinant DNA

DNA/Gene Cloning

400

The type of transposable element within noncoding DNA that remains as DNA and can be cut out of the genome to be reinserted somewhere else.

Transposon

400

Types of species within the fossil record that contain traits which are observed in widely different taxa today

Transitional

400

Genetic drift which may cause for a loss in genetic variation due to a large number of a population dying off

Bottle Neck Effect

400

Archaic enzymes which are thought to have duplicated small RNA molecules

Ribozymes

500

The name for small variations within genomes which allow for different DNA bands when gel electrophoresis is run.

Polymorphisms

500

The first step of genome sequencing that involved mapping genetic markers on chromosomes

Genetic/Linkage Mapping

500
Estimate the date of a fossil which has 1.2% of its C14 parent isotope remaining if the half life of C14 is 5730 years.

Between 28,650 and 34,380 years

500

Estimate the percentage of heterozygous individuals (carriers) for a disease if the population is in Hardy-Weinberg and 4% of the population has the recessive disease.

32%

500

The type of organisms believed to facilitate the rise in atmospheric oxygen

Cyanobacteria