Cell Structure/Function
This organelle makes food/energy from the sunlight
Chloroplasts
Organized DNA that contains the genes for our traits
Chromosomes
A genotype of Cc (different alleles) can be considered ________________
heterozygous
A bird with a sharp beak has the advantage over a bird with a round beak. Over time, the population of bird's with sharp beaks increases. This is called:
Natural selection
An organism that only eats meat is called a __________
carnivore
List the 5 levels of organization in living things from smallest to largest
Cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism
How many chromosomes are in human somatic cells?
46
Which blood type is the universal recipient?
Type AB+
In an environment, multiple cheetahs are competing for the same food. There is only enough food to feed about 50 cheetahs. In this scenario, 50 cheetahs is the ___________
Carrying capacity
On the food chain on the board, which is the secondary consumer?
Bird
These sensory receptors would be activated if you saw a baseball coming at you
Photoreceptors
The process responsible for the differences between sperm and egg cells that are made during meiosis
Recombination
This tool predicts the probability of traits appearing in a future generation
Punnett Square
Give an example of an animal adaptation
Answers will vary
On the food chain on the board, which is the producer?
Tree
This organ system makes red blood cells for the body
Skeletal system
If a frog's haploid cells have 35 chromosomes, how many will its diploid cells have?
70
Long nails are dominant to short nails. A cat with long nails can have what genotype(s)?
LL or Ll
A population of brown rabbits increases in an environment while a population of black rabbits decreases. Which color is more advantageous in this population?
Brown
Define ecology
The study of living organisms and their interactions with the environment
List the 3 parts of Cell Theory
1. All living things are made up of one or more cells
2. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life
3. Cells only come from other cells
What phase is the cell on the board in?
Prophase
A cat homozygous for short nails is crossed with a cat homozygous for long nails. Long nails is the dominant trait. Draw a Punnett square and determine the probability of the cat having short nails.
0% probability
When a species has several different traits, some can help them survive and others don’t. Having several different traits in a population is called _____________
genetic variation (or just variation)
Without this abiotic factor, nothing in an ecosystem would be able to survive
The sun