Vocabulary
A disease that affects the respiratory system and digestive system in the human body due to an overproduction of mucus.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
The location of DNA replication and transcription...
What is the Nucleus?
A change in the DNA sequence of an organism.
What is a mutation?
The basic building blocks of all living things.
What are cells?
The two things that will help you pass ANY test even if you are not confident in the content.
The multiple choice strategy and the writing strategy.
Transcription is.....
What is the process of making a mRNA copy of a gene’s DNA sequence that carries the gene’s protein information encoded in DNA.
This is the site of protein synthesis.
What is the ribosome?
A type of mutation in which one nucleotide is replaced by a different nucleotide.
What is Substitution?
This is the location in which Translation occurs.
What is the cytoplasm?
A diagram that shows the relationship between different organisms based in their shared traits?
What is a (Family) Phylogenetic Tree? (Cladogram)
The basic building block of nucleic acids that consists of a sugar molecule, attached to a phosphate group, and a nitrogen-containing base...
What is a nucleotide?
The main difference between DNA and RNA....
DNA: T (Thymine)
RNA: U (Uracil)
A genetic mutation caused by a deletion or insertion in a DNA sequence.
What is a frameshift?
The biological levels of organization of living things arranged from the simplest to most complex are...
What is cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms?
A distinct way to determine the evolutionary relationship between organisms is looking at their...
What are shared traits?
A copy of the DNA strand with complementary base pairs is a result of....
What is Replication?
A region of DNA that contain instructions that code for a protein.
What is a gene?
Changes in DNA are called mutations that often lead to...
What is evolution? (Will also take evolving, adaptions)
Cells with unique structures and functions in the body.
What are specialized cells?
What is the cell theory?
What is a Codon?
What is an anticodon?
What is a point mutation?
The process by which cells become specialized in order to perform different functions
What is cell differentiation?
An interaction between organisms or species in which both require a resource that is in limited supply (such as food, water, or territory). Competition lowers the fitness of both organisms involved since the presence of one of the organisms always reduces the amount of the resources available to the other.
What is a Competitive Advantage?