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Scientific Processes & Biochemistry
Cell Structure
Cell Processes
Genetics - Patterns of Inheritance
Molecular Genetics
100
The steps scientists use to answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
100
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
100
This type of transport requires energy from the cell.
What is active transport?
100
The physical expression of a trait.
What is phenotype?
100
The molecule that carries the genetic code.
What is DNA?
200
An explanation of a natural phenomenon that is supported by evidence.
What is a theory?
200
A cell that has no nucleus or membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryote?
200
A type of cell division that produces two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
200
The form of a gene that is always expressed.
What is dominant?
200
A section of DNA that codes for one protein.
What is a gene?
300
Maintaining a stable environment.
What is homeostasis?
300
This part of the cell controls what enters and exits.
What is the cell membrane?
300
Division of the cytoplasm - takes place at the end of mitosis.
What is cytokinesis?
300
In this pattern of inheritance, both alleles are clearly expressed.
What is codominance?
300
A mutation that trades one base for another on the DNA strand.
What is a substitution?
400
The end result of a chemical reaction.
What is the product?
400
This organelle captures energy from sunlight and stores it in molecules of glucose.
What is a chloroplast?
400
This process takes place in the chloroplasts of plant cells.
What is photosynthesis?
400
The failure of chromosomes to separate during meiosis.
What is nondisjunction?
400
The process that builds mRNA from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
500
A protein that controls a chemical reaction in a living thing.
What is an enzyme?
500
This organelle is the site of cellular respiration - energy from glucose is converted into a usable form of energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
500
This process takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide.
What is cellular respiration?
500
An individual who is heterozygous and carries one dominant and one recessive allele is also described as a ______ .
What is carrier?
500
An application of biological research to improve human life.
What is biotechnology?