Living Things and Microlife
These are the most abundant (most plentiful) organisms on Earth.
What are bacteria?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is mitochondria?
These are the four bases in DNA.
What is Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine.
This is the name of the scientist who created the idea of evolution and this is the species he examined in the Galapagos.
Who is Charles Darwin and what are his finches?
Fungi are considered ____________ because they have a nucleus.
What is eukaryotic?
This type of cell fights pathogens in the body.
What is white blood cells?
This organelle in the cell transports proteins and other chemicals around the cell.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The chemical that unzips DNA strands before they are copied.
What is helicase?
In this type of natural selection, both extreme traits are favored in an environment.
What is disruptive selection?
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. This organism would NOT have which of the following? Cytoplasm, Nucleus, Cell Membrane, or Ribosomes.
What is a nucleus?
This body system is your first line of defense and includes the skin, hair, and nails.
What is the integumentary system?
These are the two organelles that a plant cell has that an animal cell does not.
These are thread-like structures made of coiled up DNA.
What are chromosomes?
This is the name of the effect when a sharp reduction in the size of a population occurs due to environmental events such as , earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts.
What is the bottleneck effect?
This is the term for when a body remains stable inside regardless of outside conditions.
What is homeostasis?
This body system takes in food, digests it into smaller pieces, and absorbs the nutrients from it.
What is the digestive system?
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. This organism would NOT have which of the following? Cytoplasm, Nucleus, Cell Membrane, or Ribosomes.
What is the nucleus?
Curly hair (C) is dominant to straight hair (c). Cross a homozygous dominant parent with a homozygous recessive parent. What percentage of offspring would have straight hair?
What is 0%?
These are TWO vestigial structures that humans have.
What are wisdom teeth, ear wiggling face muscles, and the appendix
These are the 8 characteristics of living things.
They... Adapt, Cells, DNA, Energy, Grow, Internal Balance, Reproduce, Respond to Stimuli,
What is the skeletal system?
Cell membranes are "selectively permeable", which means..
What is that it only lets certain things in/out.
These are the 4 ways that DNA and RNA are different from one another.
What is different bases, different number of strands, different, sugar in the molecule, and location in the cell.
These are two reasons why we are nervous about bacteria evolving quickly against antibiotics.
Antibiotics won't work to kill bacteria anymore and bacteria grow very fast and they can acquire mutations quickly.