Evolution
Naturalist who put forth the theory of Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A cell is the smallest unit of life. e.g., a bacterial cell.
What is a Cell?
A feature or a characteristic such as eye color, hair type, flower color, etc.
What is a trait?
These are processes of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment. .
What are adaptations?
A eukaryotic cell organelle also called the power house of cell. It is the site of ATP production.
What is a mitochondrion?
This branch of science is concerned with the study of life.
What is Biology?
What is an Gene?
Endosymbiotic theory is a theory suggesting that the organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts within the eukaryotic cell came about as a result of the early endosymbiosis between prokaryotic endosymbionts and eukaryotic host cell. .
What is endosymbiont theory?
A prokaryotic cell, unlike a eukaryotic cell, does not have a nucleus or membrane bound organelles.
What is one difference between a eukaryotic and a prokaryotic cell?
ABO blood types in human.
What is an example of codominance?
The human body contains about 6 quarts (5.6 liters) of blood. Blood acts as your body’s transportation system.
How much blood does a human body contain and what is one function of blood?
Some variations allow the organism that possesses them to have more offspring than the organism that does not possess them. E.G., long necked giraffe that feeds on tall tree leaves in an African forest.
What is Reproductive Advantage?
The ribosome serve as the site of protein synthesis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
What is a function of ribosomes?
This famous French microbiologist created the process of pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Hemophillia/ red-green colorblindedness.
What is example of a trait that follows X-linked inheritance pattern?
Hemoglobin is a protein in blood that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide to various body cells.
What is Hemoglobin?
The fossil record is an important source of information for determining the ancestry of organisms and patterns of evolution.
What is one purpose served by fossils?
It is the jelly-like interior of a cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
This molecule, Adenosine triphosphate, serves as the form of energy utilized by our cells to carry out the life processes such as muscle contraction, beating of heart, etc.
What is ATP?
A chart that is used to study human inheritance pattern.
What is a pedigree?