Exam 1
This is the word describing a focused question that is testable and falsifiable
What is a Hypothesis?
This is the full wording for BMI
What is the Body Mass Index?
This word describes an allele that reveals itself in the phenotype only if there are two copies of that allele
What is a Recessive Allele?
A linked series of feeding relationships in which organisms further up feed on those below
What is a Food Chain?
This organ is encased in a bone structure and is vital to the nervous system
What is the Brain?
This word describes a link between variables that do not depend upon each other
What is a Correlation?
This occurs when small uncharged molecules move across the cell membrane without the help of proteins
What is Simple Diffusion?
This word describes when maternal and paternal chromosomes pair and physically exchange DNA segments
What is Recombination?
The organisms that initially eat the producers in a food chain
What are Primary Consumers?
This structure of the body helps digestion by removing water and nutrients
What is the Large Intestine?
This organelle is responsible for the synthesis AND packaging of proteins
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?
What is 563,000?
When both alleles for a gene contribute equally to the phenotype
What is Co-dominance?
This trophic level has the most available energy of any on a food chain
What are Producers?
What is the GENOTYPIC ratio of two heterozygous individuals who have children
What is 1:2:1?
What is an Independent and Dependent Variable?
This is how enzymes work in the body
This word describes an organism that has two copies of every chromosome
The baseline measurement of frequencies in a population, used to measure evolution
What is The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
In the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the q represents ________
What is the recessive allele frequency?
These are the molecules in the cell membrane that provide structure and protection for the cell
What are Phospholipids?
This location of an enzyme must fit uniquely to a substrate and allow for the building and breaking of molecular bonds
What is the Active Site?
What is the PHENOTYPIC ratio of a punnett square in which two heterozygous individuals have children
What is 3:1?
If a food chain starts with 20,000 kcal at the producer level, the Secondary Consumers will have this amount of energy at their level
200 kcal
This structure of the body has evolved to accommodate space for another major organ, how has it done so?
The lungs, one has 3 lobes and one has 2 lobes.