SS: Empire and Conflict
This empire controlled the Middle East region for 400 years before its collapse following World War I.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
DNA is often compared to this type of architectural plan because it contains instructions for the cell.
What is a blueprint?
What is 1989.
A map created in 1948 that shows the proposed borders of Israel is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This term refers to the physical traits of an organism that you can actually see.
What is a phenotype?
This city is considered "Common Land" because it is a holy site for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
There are the four "letters" that make up the DNA code.
What are A, T, G, and C?
When a Summit sports team wins a game, they are encourage to participate in this tradition.
What is "ring the bell"?
This is the professional title for a person who draws or produces maps.
What is a cartographer?
An organism that has two different alleles for a certain gene (such as Tt) is known as this.
What is heterozygous?
The Ottoman Empire collapsed after losing this major war.
What is World War I?
This is the three-dimensional shape of DNA, resembling a two-stranded spiral.
What is a double helix?
Summit's mascot is a stallion to honor that this property was once used for this purpose.
What is "used as a horse farm"?
This 1917 British document supported the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
This is a permanent change in the sequence of DNA.
What is a mutation?
These are the three different groups to whom Great Britain promised overlapping pieces of land to help win WWI.
Who are the Arabs, the Zionist Movement, and the Allied Powers (Britain/France/Russia)?
According to the base-pairing rules, Cytosine (C) always binds with this other base.
What is Guanine (G)?
A student earns a T.R.A.C.K. bracelet for showing one of these qualities.
What is Trustworthy; Respect; Responsible; Attentive; Controlled; Kind?
In 1916, this secret treaty was created by Britain and France to carve up Ottoman territory for themselves.
What is the Sykes-Picot agreement?
These are things in the environment, such as tobacco smoke or UV radiation, that cause mutations.
What are mutagens?
This term, meaning "The Catastrophe," refers to the displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the 1948 war.
What is the Nakba?
These two scientists won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for determining the structure of DNA.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
Each night a student must read for a certain length of time to earn this reward for their house.
What is "hoof prints"?
This set of between the British and the Arabs promised the Arabs an independent country.
What is the Hussein-McMahon correspondence?
If an organism has two of the same alleles (like TT or tt), it is called this.
What is homozygous?