Study of Life
What is Biology?
A substance consisting of two or more elements in a fixed ratio
What is a compound?
This element is one of the building blocks of almost all organic elements
What is carbon?
A type of breeding where parents would produce offspring that would carry the same phenotype
What is true breeding?
The ordered image of all the chromosomes in a person's cell
What is a karyotype
An organism without a true nucleus
What is a prokaryote?
This is formed when the primary sequence of a polypeptide folds into regularly repeating structures
What is incomplete dominance?
What is genetic linkage mapping?
What is an organelle?
The bond formed when atoms share electrons
What is a covalent bond?
What is the plasma membrane?
A tree showing the heredity patterns of a trait across two or more family generations
The state of having one less chromosome than normal (instead of two)
Monosomy
A method of research with defined steps that include
experiments and careful observation
What is the scientific method?
Four fundamental assumptions on which Chemistry is founded
What is the atomic theory?
This biomolecule codes for the genome of the cell
What is DNA?
The type of organism Mendel used to ensure the phenotype of the new generations would be more predictable
What are true breeding peas?
The presence of more than two sets of chromosomes in an organism
A form of logic used in hypothesis-based science
What is deductive reasoning?
These isomers are mirror images of each other
What are enantiomers?
This nucleic acid is what makes up ribosomes - the protein synthesis machinery
What is rRNA?
Segregation and recombination of alleles for one trait has no effect on segregation and recombination of alleles for other traits
What is the law of independent assortment?
Down syndrome