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| Question | Answer |
| simmilar to family tree | cladogram |
| first name of scientific name | genus |
| genus name and specific name | scientific name |
| of the following | family, order, species, and class- class is the more general term. |
| most important contribution of Carolus Linnaeus | binomial nomenclature |
| ability to mainstay steady internal conditions | homeostasis |
| anything an organisms responds to | stimulus |
| two name system by Linneaus | binomial nomenclature |
| photosynthesis _______ oxygen | releases |
| diffusion is ______ transport | passive |
| difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell | eukaryotic has a cell membrane around the genetic material. prokaryotic does not. |
| a stiff structure outside the cell membrane found in plant cells | cell wall |
| structures that have function | organelles |
| storage area of the cell | vacuoles |
| fluid inside a cell | cytoplasm |
| organelles that prepare and package proteins | golgi bodies |
| power house of the cell | mitochondria |
| passive transport of water through a membrane | osmosis |
| phase that cell spends most of its time in | interphase |
| forms protective outer layer of skin | epithelial tissue |
| similar types of cells that work together to carry out task | tissue |
| groups of different tissues working together to form a particular job | organ |
| phases of mitosis | prophase, metaphase, anaphase telophase. |
| haploid numbers of chromosomes are usually found in ________ | sex cells |
| cells that have pairs of chromosomes | diploid cells |
| cytoplasm and its contents divide | cytokinesis |
| when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent | regeneration |
| cell division and makes four haploid sex cells | meiosis |
| egg and sperm cells join together | fertilization |
| female sex cell | egg |
| male sex cell | sperm |
| cell division that produces body cells | mitosis |
| new cell formed from fertilization | zygote |
| how prokaryotes perform cell division | fission |
| a new organism grows on body of its parent (asexual reproduction) | budding |
| performed in a laboratory(asexual reproduction) | cloning |
| cells are produced by reproductive cell division during meiosis | 4 |
| _____ of human DNA is considered junk DNA | 97% |
| polygenic inheritance determines | eye color |
| in a punnett square a capital letter stands for a | dominant trait |
| genetic factor that blocks another factor | dominant factor |
| model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring | punnett square |
| how a trait appears or is expressed | phenotype |
| tool that can show phentypes of genetically related family members | pedigree |
| more than one allele controlling a trait | multiple alleles |
| study of how traits are passed | genetics |
| remains of live over time | fossils |
| change over time | evolution |
| longest time units on the geologic time scale (footprints) | trace fossils |
| adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its environment | camouflage |
| when many species become extinct within a few million year | mass extinction |
| inherited trait that helps an organism survive | adaptation |
| body parts of organisms that are similar in structure and organ | homologous structures |
| study of embryos | embryology |
| body parts that have lost their original function through evolutions | vestigial structures |
| slight difference in an inherited trait | variation |
| exact age | absolute |
| estimating age | relative |
| use of organisms to clean up enviromental pollution | bioremediation |
| kills your immunity system | HIV |
| bacteria that lives in extreme environments | Archaea |
| agents that causes diseases | pathogens |
| a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a layer of protein | virus |
| virus that rplicates without damaging host cell and doesn't have an affect | latent virus |
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