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Evolution Evidence DNA Genetics Terms Classification Vocabulary

Answer: (1:100) A molecule that contains the instructions for life; found in the nucleus of eukaryotes. Question: What is DNA?

Answer: (1:200) A human appendix, whale pelvic bones, and human wisdom teeth are examples of this. Question: What is a vestigial structure?

Answer: (1:300) Features that are similar in structure and evolutionary origin, but not the same function. Question: What are homologous structures?

Answer: (1:400). 3 conditions that must be met for natural selection to occur. Question: What are 1. Large population 2. Variations exist that can be inherited 3. Competition for resources

Question: What are nucleotides? Answer: (2:100). The building blocks of DNA.

Answer: (2:200) The three parts of a nucleotide. Question: What are nitrogen base, phosphate, and sugar.

Answer: (2:300) The base pair rules for DNA. Question: Adenine with Thymine, and Cytosine with Guanine.

Answer: (2:400) Three things that make DNA different from RNA. Question: What are double stranded, deoxyribose sugar, and thymine instead of uracil?

Answer: (3:100) The two alleles an organism has; the genetic make-up of an organism. Question: What is genotype?

Answer: (3:200) A segment of DNA that codes for a particular trait. Question: What is a gene?

Answer: (3:300) An allele that can mask/hide another allele. Question: What is a dominant allele ?

Answer: ( 3:400) A child can inherit a trait when neither of his parents exhibit the trait. Question: What happens when both parents are heterozygous recessive?

Answer: (4:100) He organized all living things into different groups based on anatomical similarities. Question: Who is Carl Linnaeus?

Answer: ( 4:200) Binomial nomenclature (include importance). Question: What is a two name system, created to clear up confusion?

Answer: (4:300) A node. A B Question: What is a point on a cladogram that shows the last common ancestor?

Answer: (4:400) Three types of adaptation. Question: What are physiological, anatomical, and behavioral?

Answer: (5:100) Fossil Question: The ancient remains of once-living organisms?

Answer: (5:200) Survival of the Fittest Question: What is the organism that is most well suited to its environment passing on its genes to future generations?

Answer: (5:300) The physical appearance of an organism: how the alleles are expressed. Question: What is the phenotype?

Answer: ( 5:400) Peptide bond Question: What are the bonds between amino acids?

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Mish Mash Protein Synthesis Evolution DNA & RNA Blood types

Answer: (1:200) The part of the mushroom that contains the spores. Question: What is the gills?

Answer: (1:400) The part of a fungi that is underground. Question: What is the mycelium?

Answer: (1:600) A couple has two children, both of which are boys. The chance that their next child will be a boy? Question: What is 50%?

Answer: (1:800). The phenotypic outcome of crossing a red flower (RR) with a white flower (WW). The flowers show incomplete dominance. Question: What is 100% pink flowers?

Question: What is the nucleus? Answer: (2:200). The location where transcription takes place.

Answer: (2:400) This brings the amino acid to the ribosome. (has anti-codon) Question: What is transfer RNA?

Answer: (2:600) The three types of adaptation. Question: What are physiological, anatomical, and behaviroal?

Answer: (2:800) Question:

Answer: (3:200) Evolution. Question: What is a change in allele frequency over time? ( a change in the gene pool)

Answer: (3:400) The amino acids for the DNA codon TAC CAT TAG ACT. Question: What is Start (methionine), Valine, Isoluecine, stop?

Answer: (3:600) How scientists determine if an organism is the most fit. Question: What is the amount of offspring they produce which survive to adulthood ?

Answer: (3:800) Four pieces of evidence for evolution. Question: What is fossils, homologous/analogous, vestigial structures, and embryological and macromolecule similarity?

Answer: (4:200) The enzyme that breaks hydrogen bonds in DNA replication. Question: What is helicase?

Answer: (4:400) Question: What?

Answer: (4:600) Three types of RNA and their jobs. Question: What is rRNA (makes up the ribosomes), mRNA (messenger), and tRNA (taxi that brings amino acids to ribosome)?

Answer: (4:800) Transcription and translation. Question: The process of creating mRNA from DNA, and the process of building a protein from the mRNA sequence?

Answer: (5:200) The pattern of dominance in human blood type. Question: What is A and B dominant to O?

Answer: (5:400) The possible blood type(s) of a father if the mother is blood type B and the child is blood type A? Question: What is Type A or Type AB?

Answer: (5:400) The possible blood types of a child if the mother is type O and the father is type AB. Question: What is disruptive?

Answer: (5:800). Question: What?

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