Ecology
What is the term for the role or function of a species within its ecosystem?
What is a niche?
Who is the father of evolution?
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is the process by which prokaryotic cells reproduce?
What is binary fission?
What are the short fragments of DNA synthesized on the lagging strand during DNA replication called?
What are Okazaki fragments?
Name the parts and sub stages of the cell cycle.
What is Interphase (G1, S, G2), Mitosis (PMAT), and Cytokinesis?
Name the type of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
What term describes the process by which individuals better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce?
What is natural selection?
What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis in terms of the cells they produce?
What is mitosis produces 2 genetically identical diploid daughter cells, and meiosis produces 4 genetically unique haploid cells?
What is the role of the poly-A tail and 5' cap in eukaryotic mRNA?
What is to protect mRNA from degradation and assist in translation initiation?
How many amino acids are there?
What are 20 amino acids?
What is the maximum population size that an environment can sustainably support?
What is carrying capacity?
What are the two rates of macroevolution?
What are punctuated equilibrium and gradualism?
During which stage of meiosis does crossing over occur, and why is it important?
What is Prophase I, and it is important because it increases genetic diversity?
What is the term for regions of DNA that are transcribed but removed during RNA processing?
What are introns?
What is the difference between mitosis and binary fission?
What is mitosis produces new cells within an organism, and binary fission produces whole new organisms?
Name the two main types of ecological succession.
What are primary and secondary succession?
What is the name of the structure or feature that serves no current purpose but was useful to an ancestor?
What is a vestigial structure?
What is the term for the type of reproduction where offspring are produced without the fusion of gametes?
What is asexual reproduction?
What is the term for the sequence of three nucleotides on tRNA that pairs with the codon on mRNA during translation?
What is an anticodon?
Name at least 4 of the evidences of macroevolution.
What are the fossil record, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, molecular evidence, biogeography, observations of speciation, patterns of extinction and adaptive radiation, etc.
What term describes a species whose impact on its ecosystem is disproportionately large relative to its abundance?
What is a keystone species?
What type of selection favors individuals with extreme traits at both ends of a population?
What is disruptive selection?
What is the significance of independent assortment during meiosis?
What is it increases genetic variation by randomly distributing homologous chromosomes to gametes?
Why is the genetic code considered redundant?
What is each codon codes for one specific amino acid, but each amino acid can have multiple codons that code for it?
Name the 5 forces of microevolution.
What are mutations, natural selection, sexual selection, genetic drift, and gene flow?