Universe & Earth
The distance between Earth and the sun.
What is an Astronomical Unit (AU)?
A-T and C-G or A-U and C-G.
What is the base pairing of DNA or RNA?
2 from each parent.
What are alleles?
A fused set of vertebrae that is present in humans and apes.
What is the coccyx or "tail bone"?
This sets the scale to zero and should be done before weighing anything.
What is tare/zero?
The Earth's Magnetism prevents this from stripping away our ozone layer.
What is solar winds?
Substructures of the cell that contribute to the function of the cell.
What are Organelles?
Both Alleles are dominant.
What is Homozygous dominant?
Australopithecus Afarensis
What is Lucy?
Goggles, T-shirt, pants, closed-toed shoes, and gloves.
What is basic lab safety?
Our galaxy is considered one of these.
A spiral galaxy.
Has a cell wall and chloroplasts as well as other features.
What is a plant cell?
Blue eyes are recessive genes; therefore, an individual with blue eyes has what genotype?
bb
The ability and bone structure to walk on two legs for the majority of one's movement.
What is bipedalism?
Objects made of the same elements will always be the same, no matter the volume or weight.
What is density?
Describe the Star life cycle.
Starts as a Stellar Nebula and splits into 2 paths. Path 1: Average star consumes all of its helium, expands into a Red giant that then pops its shell off, Planetary Nebula then forms and collapses into a white dwarf star.
Path 2: A Massive star consumes all of its helium until it becomes a red supergiant that then explodes as a supernova. The supernova explosion collapses into either a black hole or a neutron star.
Has mitochondria, microtubules, Golgi apparatus, Lysosomes, Plasma membrane, ribosomes, rough ER and smooth ER, cytosol, and Vesicles.
What is an animal cell?
Figure out the parents' genotype.
[Bb][bb]
[Bb][bb]
Parent 1: Bb
Parent 2: bb
Teeth for both meat and plants, similar bone structures, bipedal, and an ever-increasing brain size.
What are the significant pieces of evidence used in the quest for discovering human origins?
These parts of the microscope allow you to view the object with more or less clarity by adjusting them.
What is a course and fine focus?
In the Ionosphere, solar winds send charged particles into our atmosphere, causing collision that excites atoms.
What is the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights?
Describe the process of DNA replication and protein synthesis.
In the Nucleus, the DNA unzips into RNA. The RNA travels out to the ribosomes, where they are scanned, and proteins are then created based on the RNA. The proteins are assembled and then sent to the Golgi apparatus, where they are modified and then shipped out of the cell.
In DNA replication, helicase unzips the DNA into RNA. The polymerase scans the template and grabs free nucleotides to pair the bases together. This replicates the original strand of DNA into two new strands.
A heterozygous parent and a homozygous dominant parent had a child. What are the possibilities and percentages for the child's?
50% BB or 50% Bb
Evolved parallel to us, and we have an ancient ancestor. They are currently around today.
What is Pan Troglodytes (Chimps)?
Describe the process of analyzing a cell sample under a microscope. Specify the parts of the microscope that will be used and the parts of the cell that you would use to determine if the cell is a plant or an animal.
The sample slide would be placed on the stage in the stage clips. The eyepieces will then be adjusted to my eyes. I will then use the course focus to find the object and then the fine focus to clear up the edges. If I need to zoom in, I will change the objective and then adjust the focus as needed.
The key features I would use to determine are:
Overall organization of cell parts, presence of a cell wall, and presence of a chloroplast.