Cells

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Cell Division

Molecular Gentics

Evolution &Classification

Cells

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Contains chromosomes, surrounded by selectively permeable membrane containing

pores that allow transport of molecules through envelope

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What is nucleus?

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Organisms that lack a membrane-bound nucleus

and membrane-bound organelles

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What are prokaryotes?

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A group of similar cells that carry out a specific function

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What is tissue?

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The cell "gulps" droplets of fluid into tiny vesicles. It takes in any and all solutes dissolved

in the droplets

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What is pinocytosis?

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Region where the cell's microtubules are initiated; in an animal cell, contains a pair

of centrioles

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What are centrosomes?

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The process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, carbon dioxide and

water to to produce carbohydrates and oxygen

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What is photosynthesis?

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In plants, the solution that surrounds the thylakoids in

a chloroplast

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What is stroma?

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In the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts, a cluster of

chlorophyll and other pigment molecules that harvest light

energy for the light reactions of photosynthesis

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What is photosystem?

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A series of molecules, found in the inner membranes of mitochondria and chloroplasts, through which electrons pass in a process that

causes protons to build up on one side of the membrane

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What is electron transport chain?

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A carbon-fixing process in which carbon dioxide is bound to a compound to form a four-

carbon intermediate

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What is the C4 pathway?

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The process by which cells obtain energy from carbohydrates;

atmospheric oxygen combines with glucose to form water and

carbon dioxide

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What is cellular respiration?

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The breakdown of carbohydrates by enzymes, bacteria, yeasts, or mold in

the absence of oxygen

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What is fermentation?

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The three-carbon compound that is produced during glycolysis and needed for both the aerobic and anaerobic pathways of cellular repiration that follow glycolysis

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What is pyruvic acid?

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A compound that is synthesized by cells and that plays a major role in

metabolism

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What is Acetyl CoA?

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The anaerobic breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid, which

makes a small amount of energy available to cells in

the form of ATP

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What is glycolysis?

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A process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells conventionally

divided into five stages. It conserves chromosome number by equally

allocating replicated chromosomes to each of the daughter nuclei.

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What is mitosis?

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The division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter

cells immediately after mitosis.

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What is cytokinesis?

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A specialized region on the centromere that links each

sister chromatid to the mitotic spindle.

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What is kinetochore?

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The synthesis phase of the cell cycle; the

portion of interphase during which DNA is

replicated.

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What is S Phase?

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A protein complex required for a cell to progress from late interphase to mitosis; the

active form consists of cyclin and cdc2, a protein kinase.

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What is MPF?

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The synthesis of a polypeptide chain from a segment of RNA.

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What is translation?

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A promoter DNA sequence.

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What is TATA box?

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mRNA base triplets that specify for an amino acid (written in 5'-->3' direction along the

mRNA)

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What are codons?

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Attaches Okazaki fragments

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What is DNA Ligase?

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A gene at one locus alters the phenotypic expression a gene

at a second locus.

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What is epistasis?

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Descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral species that were different

form present-day ones

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What is evolution?

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A process in which chance events cause unpredictable fluctuations

in allele frequencies from one generation to the next, effects are most pronounced in small

populations

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What is genetic drift?

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Sponges, no true specialized tissue, can

be both male and female.

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What is porifera?

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Mostly ocean, multi-cellular, live in deep water, pigment

from phycbilin, produce non-flagellated gametes.

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What is Red Algae?

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Organisms develop differences between

breeding times

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What is temporal isolation?

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Plant Systems

Animal Systems

Ecology

Labs

Biotechnology

Miscellaneous

PlantSystems

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AnimalSystems

Ecology Labs Biotechnology Miscellaneous

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An organ that anchors a vascular plant

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What are roots?

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The vascular tissue of leaves

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What are veins?

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Transports organic nutrients such as

sugars

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What is phloem?

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The region between the upper and lower

epidermis/consists mainly of parenchyma

cells

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What is mesophyll?

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The outermost cell layer in the vascular cylinder, from which

lateral roots arise

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What is pericycle?

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Stable internal environment that is

maintained within the body

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What is homeostasis?

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A specific immune response that involves the lysis of

infected cells by cytotoxic T cells

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What is cell-mediated response?

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Cells such as white blood cells, travel within

connective tissues to find pathogens

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What are macrophages?

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The wave-like movement of the digestive tract

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What is peristalsis?

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Prepares a female for pregnancy, a reproductive cycle in higher female

primates characterized by the shedding of the nonpregnant endometrium, is controlled by

hormones

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What is menstrual cycle?

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The part of its fundamental niche that a species actually

occupies

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What is realized niche?

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A tropical grassland biome with scattered individual trees, large herbivores, and three distinct seasons based primarily on

rainfall, maintained by occasional fires and drought.

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What is savanna?

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Decomposer, consumes nonliving

organic material

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What is detrivore?

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A type of mimicry in which a harmless species looks like a species that is poisonous or

otherwise harmful to predators.

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What is Batesian mimicry?

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The part of an ocean or lake beneath the photic zone,

where light does not penetrate sufficiently for photosynthesis to occur.

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What is aphotic zone?

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Concentration of solutes is equal on

both sides

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What are isotonic solutions?

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A method used in molecular biology to separate a mixed population of DNA and RNA

fragments by length

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What is gel electrophoresis

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Measured in the amount of CO2 used, rate of sugar formation,

and rate of O2 production

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What is primary productivity?

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An animal whose body temperature varies

with the temperature of its surroundings

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What is an ectotherm?

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The blood pressure during the contraction of the

left ventricle of the heart

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What is systolic pressure?

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Manipulation of living organisms or their

components to produce useful products

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What is biotechnology?

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Enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific sequence of

nucleotides

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What are restriction enzymes?

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A single stranded end of a restriction fragment, can form

hydrogen bonds with complementary single stranded pieces of DNA

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What are sticky ends?

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Artificially made pieces of single-stranded DNA that must be present for DNA

polymerase to initiate replication

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What are primers?

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Noncoding regions of DNA that vary from person to person,

they produce different lengths of DNA and can be used to identify a single individual

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What are RFLPs?

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The preserved remains or traces of an organism that

lived in the past

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What is fossil?

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Second largest taxonomic group, there are six: animalia, plantae, protista, eubacteria,

archaebacteria, fungi

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What is kingdom?

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An extensive region of land that includes one or more areas that are

undisturbed by humans, the undisturbed areas are surrounded by

lands that have been altered by human activity

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What is zoned reserve?

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Programmed cell death

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What is apoptosis?

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Infectious particle made up of protein rather than DNA or RNA

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What is prion?

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The study of living organisms, divided into many specialized

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