Patterns of Inheritance
A different version of the same gene is a(n) _____________.
What is an Allele?
This organelle is the site for DNA translation.
What is ribosome?
Define Evolution.
What is the change in allele frequency in a population over time?
Wha is the most inclusive taxonomic classification category?
What is Domain?
A person has a recessive allele for a disease but the allele is masked by the presence of a normal dominant allele in the person. This person ______________.
What is a carrier for the disease?
The 3-base sequence of mRNA.
What is a codon?
Similar bone structures in the limbs of vertebrates is an example of _________________.
Evidence of evolution, specifically descent from a common ancestor with modification.
The maximum number of individuals that an environment can support is ____________.
What is Carrying capacity?
If you cross two pea plants, one with green peas and the other with yellow peas, and all of the offspring have yellow peas, you can conclude _________________.
What is Yellow is dominant over green?
This molecule carriers amino acids to the ribosomes.
What is tRNA?
What are some of the requirements for natural selection to occur?
Variation of traits, inheritance of traits, differential survival
Name one of ways humans have increased the carrying capacity for humans.
Agriculture, domestication of animals, using up large amounts of natural resources, development of large shelters.
Human blood type is an example of what form or dominance?
What is Co-dominance?
This molecule takes the transcribed genetic code from DNA to the ribosome.
What is mRNA?
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, certain individuals will leave more offspring on average than do other individuals. Their success is due to the _________________.
What is Possession of inherited adaptations that are well-suited to the environment?
What is a monophyletic clade?
A group of organisms with a common ancestor and all of the descendants.