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Cell Structure

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The membrane enclosing the cell

Cell Structure

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What is the plasma membrane?

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These are projections that increase the cell’s surface area

Cell Structure

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What are microvilli?

Cell Structure

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Many freshwater protists have these, which pump excess water out of the

cell, thereby maintaining concentration of salts

Cell Structure

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What are contractile vacuoles?

Cell Structure

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A microbody containing enzymes that transfer hydrogen from various substrates to oxygen,

producing and then degrading hydrogen peroxide

Cell Structure

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What is a peroxisome?

Cell Structure

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A type of intercellular junction in animal cells that functions

as an anchor

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Cell Structure

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Rotor, Stator, Rod, and Knob are parts of this

enzyme.

Respiration

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What is ATP Synthase?

Respiration

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The amount of ATP oxidative phosphorylation and

chemiosmosis produces.

Respiration

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What is 32 or 34 ATP?

Respiration

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In glycolysis, glucose is broken down into two of these molecules.

Respiration

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What is pyruvate?

Respiration

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The citric acid cycle and oxidative

phosphorylation occur in this organelle.

Respiration

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What is the mitochondria?

Respiration

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These organisms can make enoughATP to survive using either

fermentation or respiration.

Respiration

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What are facultative anaerobes?

Respiration

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The sum total of a species’ use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment.

Ecology

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What is its ecological niche?

Ecology

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The evaporation of water from soil plus the transpiration of water from plants.

Ecology

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What is evapotranspiration?

Ecology

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This is equal to the net secondary production

divided by the assimilation of

primary production

Ecology

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Ecology

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This occurs when toxins become more

concentrated in successive trophic levels of a food

web

Ecology

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What is biological magnification?

Ecology

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This is the modification of behavior based on

experience with the spatial structure of the

environment.

Ecology

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What is spacial learning?

Ecology

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This type of speciation occurs when gene flow is interrupted when a population is divided

in geographically isolated subpopulations

Evolution

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What is allopatric?

Evolution

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This type of speciation occurs in geographically overlapping populations.

Evolution

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What is sympatric?

Evolution

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This may have been the first genetic

material.

Evolution

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What is RNA?

Evolution

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A population is said to display this for a character if two or

more distinct morphs are each represented in high enough frequencies to be

readily noticeable

Evolution

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What is phenotypic polymorphism?

Evolution

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This is the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation, relative to the contributions

of other individuals

Evolution

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What is fitness?

Evolution

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These cells help support young parts of the plant shoot.

Plant Systems

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What are collenchyma cells?

Plant Systems

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In this zone, cells complete their

differentiation and become functionally

mature.

Plant Systems

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What is the zone of maturation?

Plant Systems

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This is the exudation of water droplets that can be seen in the morning on tips of

grass blades.

Plant Systems

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What is guttation?

Plant Systems

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In woody plants, these protective tissues

replace the epidermis in older regions of stems and roots.

Plant Systems

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What is the periderm?

Plant Systems

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These cells have primary walls that are

relatively thin and flexible, and most

lack secondary walls.

Plant Systems

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What are parenchyma cells?

Plant Systems

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This kind of epithelia absorbs or secretes chemical solutions.

Animal Systems

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What are glandular epithelia?

Animal Systems

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These are amoeboid cells that roam the maze of

fibers, engulfing foreign particles and the debris of

dead cells by phagocytosis.

Animal Systems

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What are macrophages?

Animal Systems

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A blood only clots when this plasma protein is converted to its active

form.

Animal Systems

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What is fibrinogen?

Animal Systems

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This protein has antiviral or immune regulatory

functions.

Animal Systems

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What is an interferon?

Animal Systems

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The contraction phase of the cardiac cycle is

called this.

Animal Systems

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What is the systole?

Animal Systems

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This is when two alleles affect the phenotype

in separate, distinguishable ways.

Genetics

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What is codominance?

Genetics

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This is when a fene at one locus alters the

phenotypic expression of a gene at a second

locus.

Genetics

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What is epistasis?

Genetics

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This type of genetic testing is when a physician inserts a narrow tube through the

cervix into the uterus and suctions out a tiny sample of

tissue from the placenta.

Genetics

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What is chorionic villus sampling?

Genetics

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The crossing over of chromosomes results

in this.

Genetics

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What are recombinant chromosomes?

Genetics

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This is a degenerative disease of the nervous system that is caused by a lethal dominant

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What is Huntington’s Disease?

Genetics

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This gene has been called the “guardian

angel of the genome”.

Biotechnology

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What is p53 gene?

Biotechnology

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This is a cloning vector that contains a highly active

prokaryotic promoter just upstream of the restriction

site.

Biotechnology

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What is an expression vector?

Biotechnology

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This when a brief electrical pulse is applied to a solution

containing cells, which creates temporary holes in their plasma membranes,

though which DNA can enter.

Biotechnology

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What is electroporation?

Biotechnology

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These are single base-pair variations in the genome, usually

detected by sequencing.

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What are single nucleotide

polymorphisms (SNPs)?

Biotechnology

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This is the separation of two strands of DNA.

Biotechnology

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What is denaturation?

Biotechnology

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This nitrogen base pairs with adenine in

RNA.

DNA Structure

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What is uracil?

DNA Structure

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This is where replication of a DNA

molecule begins.

DNA Structure

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What are the origins of replication?

DNA Structure

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This enzyme catalyzes the lengthening of

telomeres in eukaryotic germ cells.

DNA Structure

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What is telomerase?

DNA Structure

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These RNA molecules function as enzymes.

DNA Structure

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What are ribozymes?

DNA Structure

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This mutation in the DNA causes translation to be terminated prematurely.

DNA Structure

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What is a nonsense mutation?

DNA Structure

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These are hydrocarbons that are various shades of

yellow and orange because they absorb violet and

blue-green light.

Photosynthesis

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What are carotenoids?

Photosynthesis

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These cells are arranged into tightly packed

sheaths around the veins of the leaf.

Photosynthesis

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What are bundle-sheath cells?

Photosynthesis

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These are the two stages of

photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis

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What are the light reactions and the

Calvin Cycle?

Photosynthesis

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Oxygen exits the cell by way of this

organelle.

Photosynthesis

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What are stomata?

Photosynthesis

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An elaborate system of interconnected

membranous sacs called this segregates the stroma

from another compartment.

Photosynthesis

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What are thylakoids?

Photosynthesis

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This phase is when the nucleoli disappears.

Mitosis

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What is prophase?

Mitosis

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The cell spends most of its time in this phase.

Mitosis

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What is interphase?

Mitosis

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This is a nonmembranous organelle that functions

thoughout the cell cycle to organize the cell’s

microtubules.

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What are centrosomes?

Mitosis

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This is when the cleavage furrow

forms.

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What is cytokinesis?

Mitosis

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Prokaryotes reproduce asexually by this.

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What is binary fission?

Mitosis

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