Biology Final

In eukaryotes, DNA is

Which of the following is a possible future benefit of stem cell research?

Which ecological inquiry method is used when population #s of a certain species are counted

An area's average conditions

Which of the following combinations of sex chromosomes represents a female?

The range of physical & biological conditions in which an organism lives

Land & water ecosystems provide resources that a person uses & neutralize wastes is part of

Preserved remains of ancient organisms are called

DDT was used to

When a cell divides, each daughter cell gets

The instructions for making new copies of a virus are

What word best describes the # of different species in the biosphere or in a particular area

The use of DNA fingerprinting relies on the fact that

Colorblindness is more common in males b/c the allele is_____& located on the ____chromosome

During what process do prokaryotes exchange genetic information?

Plants are

During mitotic cell division a parent cell that has 4 chromosomes will produce 2 daughter cells

A mule is the result of a cross between a donkey and a horse. A mule is a

Breathing heavily after running a race is your body's way of

How do bacteria cause disease?

What happens to genetic information when a piece of DNA is missing?

The movement of organisms into a range is called

Animals that get energy by eating the carcasses of other animals are called

An area's day-to-day conditions

Using resources in way that does not cause long-term environmental harm is called

If a pea plant's alleles for height are tt, what is true of its parents?

Any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival is a(n)

Which could bring 2 recessive alleles together & cause a genetic defect?

Amount of nitrogen, oxygen, & other elements dissolved in the water of an aquatic ecosystem is

Lactic acid fermentation occurs in

How many chromosomes are shown in a normal human karyotype?

A natural phenomenon that maintains Earth's temperature range

Molecules constantly move & collide with each other because of

Demography is the scientific study of

The weight of human infants at birth is under the influence of

Process by which organisms keep everything inside their bodies within certain limits is called

What do bacteriophages infect?

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism is harmed and another benefits is

An order is a category composed of similar

What is the process that changes one set of chemicals into another set of chemicals?

Gene therapy is successful if the replacement gene

All organisms that belong to the domain Archaea are

If you stir salt into boiling water, you produce a

Farming, overgrazing, &/or drought change farmland into land that can't support plant life it's

____removes CO₂ from the atmosphere and ____puts it back

Which shows the correct order in which the evolution of traits occurred?

Plants gather energy with light-absorbing molecules called

An unknown disease or well-known disease that suddenly becomes harder to control is called

The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level is called the

What are found in the space surrounding the nucleus of an atom?

What animals eat both plants and animals?

In the Punnett Square, which is true about the offspring resulting from the cross?

A heterozygous tall plant crossed w/ a short one The probability the offspring will be tall is

All the interconnected feeding realtionships in an ecosystem make up a food

Natural selection leads to an increase in a species'

Cancer affects

Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor?

Which is the correct sequence of the transfer of information in most organisms?

What is inside a bacteriophage?

Which type of RNA brings info in the genetic code from the nucleus to other parts of the cell?

What is produced during transcription?

Cancer is a disorder in which some cells have lost the ability to control their

In early development, all cells are identical. Later, cells become specialized through

Which of the following diseases is NOT caused by a bacterium

Viral infections can be prevented by vaccines, which are

During DNA replication, a DNA strand that has the bases TCGAAT produces a strand with the bases

Why are stem cells important?

The sulfur and nitrogen compounds in smog combine with water to form

From which molecules are mRNA molecules transcribed?

Limiting factor that includes competition, predation, parasitism, disease & overcrowding stress

Looking at a cell under a microscope, you note that it's a prokaryote.You know because it lacks

The three particles that make up atoms are

The gray-brown haze often found over large cities is called

The two main types of fermentation are called

A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit is

When one allele is not completely dominant over another, this is an example of

An example of a renewable resource is

Organisms that have 2 identical alleles for a particular trait are said to be

Most populations that are growing, as resources start to become less available, the population

Which structure makes proteins using coded instructions that come from the nucleus?

What percentage of human sperm cells carry an X chromosome?

Which means of particle transport is shown in the figure?

Which of the following makes up a molecule of water?

The procedure illustrated above is an example of

Gametes are produced by the process of

Which organelle breaks down organelles that are no longer useful?

The basic unit of length in the metric system is the

Changes in the sequence of DNA are called

Dolly is a sheep produced by cloning. The source of Dolly's DNA

Catalysts lower the _________of a chemical reaction

Which organelle would you expect to find in plant cells but not animal cells?

A color blind boy's mother_____carry the colorblind gene

Most mutations

Differences in cells are part of cell specialization. Cell specialization allows cells to

During a controlled experiment, a scientist isolates and tests

Unlike DNA, RNA contains

A limiting factor that includes unusual weather & natural disasters

A well-tested explanation that explains a lot of observations is a(n)

Organisms that cannot make their own food & must obtain energy from external sources are called

You observe & suggest that the presence of water could speed up the growth of bread mold.

Humans select from among the naturally occurring genetic variations in a species in the process