Flashcards in Mid Term Exam Deck (76):
What is the keeping of a constant internal environment despite changes in the external environment?
What is all biochemical reactions of an organism?
What is a group of similar looking organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?
What is a testable explanation of a situation?
What is the production of two identical cells from one cell?
What is the joining of two non-identical cells to form one cell?
What is the measure that is taken based on the independent variable?
What is the standard in which all conditions are kept the same?
What is the condition in an experiment that is changed?
What is an organism that can NOT make their own food, and rely on other organisms?
What is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment?
What are nonliving things that inhabit the environment - sunlight, air currents, temperature?
What is the study of life?
What is an organism that uses energy from the sun to create their own food?
What is the reaction to a stimulus?
What is a relationship between 2 organisms, where one benefits and the other is unaffected?
What is a substance that forms hydrogen ions in the water?
What is a substance that forms hydroxide ions in water?
What is a biologist catalyst, made of protein - that speeds up a reaction?
What is a substance that is composed of atoms of different elements chemically bonded?
What is the diffusion of water?
What is the production of food for plants, using energy from the sun and CO(2)?
What is a mixture in which one or more substances are distributed evenly in another substance?
What is the bond formed when two atoms share electrons?
What is the process by which food molecules are broken down to release energy?
What is the combination of substances in which individual substances retain their own properties?
What is the movement of particles from an area of high concentration to low concentration?
What is the bond formed when electrons are donated from one ion to the next to hold the ions together?
What converts light energy into chemical energy and contains green pigment?
What are flattened sacs that receive newly made proteins and distribute them to other parts of the cell?
What is the site of protein synthesis that is located on rough ER and in cytoplasm?
What food molecules are broken down to release energy here, powerhouse of the cell?
What is the control center of the cell contains the DNA?
What is made up of a double layer of phosphates and fats, another name for cell membrane?
What is a large molecule that is formed when many smaller molecules bond together to form chains?
What are cell projections that assist with movement?
Flagella - cilia
What are cell division of all the cells of the body except for sex cells?
What is the cell division that takes place in sex cells?
What is the different gene forms?
What are the cells that only have one set of chromosomes is known as?
What cell is known as 2n?
What is the sex cells?
What are the segment on DNA that controls the production of a protein?
What are the 2 pieces of DNA that make up a chromosome?
What structures are made of DNA and pass on genetic information?
What is the structure that binds sister chromatids together?
What is the symbiotic relationship between a tick and dog?
What structure's function is to pull the chromosomes apart?
What is any condition in an environment that causes an organism to adjust?
What is a set of paired statements that can be used to identify an organism?
What is the study of the standards of what is right and wrong?
What is a biologist that counts the number of dogs in a fenced in yard in order to collect data - - he is conducting what type of research?
What kingdom included those organisms that are heterotrophic absorbers?
What kingdom is where all species are multicellular autotrophs?
What kingdom contains individuals that may have plant-like, animal-like or fungus-like characteristics?
What kingdom obtains food by diverse pathways?
What is the only kingdom that includes prokaryotic organisms?
What kingdom contains organisms that are heterotrophic consumers?
Be able to list the 12 levels of organization - large to smallest and smallest to largest.
S - L - - - Atoms, molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, Population, community, ecosystem, Biome, biosphere
L - S - - Biosphere, biome, exosystem, community, population, organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell, molecule, atom
What is the following an example of:
grass - - grasshopper - - rat - - snake
Which of the following organisms would be a carnivore in an ecosystem?
mouse - - black bear - - tree - - snake
What is the approximate percentage of energy that is lost at each trophic level?
What is the net gain in ATP following completion of aerobic cellular respiration of one molecule of glucose in a brain cell?
What will happen to the plant cell when it is placed in a hypertonic solution?
It will shrivel
When some materials are admitted through a cell membrane but other are not - - what is the membrane called?
Which of the following explains why cell size is limited?
diffusion of materials take twice as long
too much waste produced
twice as much DNA content is need
What is the final result of meiosis?
The production of 4 haploid gametes
When do cells grow and divide at an ABNORMALLY high rate?
KNOW THE STAGES OF MITOTIC CELL DIVISION - BY LOOKING AT A PICTURE - - KNOW THE ORDER
See Mrs. Krumpelman for help
During which phase of mitosis do the chromosomes line up in the middle?
What is the longest phase of the cell cycle?
When does contact inhibition occur?
Wen cell touch each other and stop dividing
What occurs when an area of a chromatid is exchanged with the matching area on a chromatid of it homologous chromosome?
What is a heterotrophic eukaryote associated with the decomposition of dead organisms?
What are algae, grass, trees know as?