Topic 1: Things
we didn’t cover
Topic 2: Cells
Topic 3:
Photosynthesis
Topic 4:
Respiration
Topic 5: Cell
division
Topic 6:
Molecular
genetics
Things we
didn’t cover
Cells
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Cell
division
Molecular
genetics
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Double Jeopardy!
Things we didn’t cover
Kinetic energy associated with
the random movement of
atoms or molecules
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Things we didn’t cover
What is heat or
thermal energy?
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Things we didn’t cover
The portion of a system’s energy
that can perform work when
temperature and pressure are
uniform throughout the system,
in a living cell
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Things we didn’t cover
What is free energy?
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Things we didn’t cover
Manages the material
and energy resources
of the cell
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Things we didn’t cover
What is metabolism?
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Things we didn’t cover
What is the second law of
thermodynamics?
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Things we didn’t cover
Every energy transfer of
transformation increases
the entropy of the universe
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Things we didn’t cover
Horizontal gene transfers that
occurred between many different
bacterial and archaean lineages
that may have produce the
genome of eukaryotic cells
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Things we didn’t cover
What is genetic
annealing?
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Cells
A phenomenon in
which crowded cells
stop dividing due to
an external physical
factor
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Cells
What is densitydependent inhibition?
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Cells
Sphere of cells containing a
cavity
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Cells
What is a blastocyst?
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Cells
Between primary walls
of adjacent cells
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Cells
What is the middle
lamella?
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Cells
Membrane receptor that can trigger
more than one signal transduction
pathway at once, helping the cell
regulate many aspects of cell growth
and reproduction
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Cells
What is a receptor
tyrosine kinase?
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Cells
Contains the cell
contents exclusive of
the cell wall in a plant
cell
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Cells
What is a protoplast?
Back
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Photosynthesis
The tissue in the
interior of a leaf
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Photosynthesis
What is the mesophyll?
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Photosynthesis
Segment from 380nm
to 750nm on the
electromagnetic
spectrum
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Photosynthesis
What is visible light?
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Photosynthesis
These split H 0 and
release O to the
atmosphere
2
2
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Photosynthesis
What are light
reactions?
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Photosynthesis
These preface the Calvin
cycle with an alternate
mode of carbon fixation.
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Photosynthesis
What are C plants?
4
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Photosynthesis
The carbohydrate
produced directly from
the Calvin cycle
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Photosynthesis
What is
glyceraldehyde-3phosphate or G3P?
Back
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Respiration
Breaks the fall of
electrons to oxygen
into several energyreleasing steps
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Respiration
What is an electron
transport chain?
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Respiration
Pyruvate is reduced
directly by NADH to
form lactate as an
end product, with no
release of CO
2
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Respiration
What is lactic acid
fermentation?
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Respiration
The enzyme that
makes ATP from ADP
and inorganic
phosphate
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Respiration
What is ATP synthase?
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Respiration
Spins within the
membrane when H+
flows past it down the
H+ gradient
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Respiration
What is a rotor?
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Respiration
Breaks fatty acids
down to two carbon
fragments
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Respiration
What is beta oxidation?
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Cell division
Accounts for 90% of
the cell cycle
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Cell division
What is interphase?
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Cell division
Fibers made out of
microtubules and associated
proteins that begins to form
during prophase in which
many of the events of
mitosis depend on
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Cell division
What is the mitotic
spindle?
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Cell division
A radial array of short
microtubules that
extends from each
chromosome, part of
the mitotic spindle
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Cell division
What is an aster?
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Cell division
Phase of mitosis in
which the nuclear
envelope fragments
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Cell division
What is prometaphase?
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Cell division
An X-shaped region
where the physical
manifestation of
crossing over occurs
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Cell division
What is a chiasma?
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Molecular genetics
The enzyme that
catalyzes the
elongation of new
DNA at a replication
fork
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Molecular genetics
What is DNA
polymerase?
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Molecular genetics
The enzyme that
untwists the double
helix at the replication
forks
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Molecular genetics
What is helicase?
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Molecular genetics
The completed assembly
of transcription factors
and RNA polymerase II
bound to the promoter
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Molecular genetics
What is the
transcription initiation
complex?
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Molecular genetics
The 3’ end of a pre-RNA
molecule that is modified
by the addition of 50 to
250 adenine nucletides
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Molecular genetics
What is a poly-A tail?
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Molecular genetics
Several different
snRNPs joined with
additional proteins
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Molecular genetics
What is a spliceosome?
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Double
Jeopardy!!!
Topic 7:
Evolution and
classification
Topic 8: Plant
systems
Topic 9: Animal
systems
Topic 10:
Ecology
Topic 11: Labs
Topic 12:
Biotechnology
Evolution and
classification
Plant
systems
Animal
systems
Ecology
Labs
Biotechnology
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Evolution and
classification
A postzygotic barrier in
which the genes of
different parent species
may interact and impair
the hybrid’s development
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Evolution and
classification
What is reduced hybrid
viability?
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Evolution and
classification
A concept of species that
defines a species as a set
of organisms with a unique
gene history
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Evolution and
classification
What is the
phylogenetic species
concept?
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Evolution and
classification
An individual that has more
than two chromosome
sets, all derived from a
single species
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Evolution and
classification
What is an
autopolyploid?
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Evolution and
classification
Homologous genes that are passed
in a straight line from one
generation to the next but have
ended up in different gene pools
due to speciation
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Evolution and
classification
What are orthologous
genes?
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Evolution and
classification
A condition that occurs if reproductive
development accelerates compared to
somatic development in which the sexually
mature stage of a species may retain body
features that were juvenile structures in
an ancestral species
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Evolution and
classification
What is
paedomorphosis?
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Plant systems
Plant cells that help
support young parts
of the plant shoot
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Plant systems
What are collenchyma
cells?
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Plant systems
The outermost cell
layer in the vascular
cylinder
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Plant systems
What is the pericycle?
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Plant systems
Plants adapted to arid
climates that have
various leaf
modifications that
reduce the rate of
transpiration
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Plant systems
What are xerophytes?
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Plant systems
This occurs when the root
pressure causes more
water to enter the leaves
than is transpired
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Plant systems
What is guttation?
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Plant systems
The vacuolar membrane that
regulates molecular traffic
between the cytosol and
the vacuolar contents
called cell sap
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Plant systems
What is a tonoplast?
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Animal systems
The epithelial layer that
lines the lumen in the
stomach of a
vertebrate
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Animal systems
What is the mucosa?
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Animal systems
The type of epithelial
tissue that forms a
mucous membrane that
lines the respiratory
tract of many
vertebrates
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Animal systems
What is a
pseudostratified
ciliated columnar
epithelium?
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Animal systems
Sheets of connective
tissue in moist or fluid
filled body cavities
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Animal systems
What are mesenteries?
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Animal systems
A type of particle associated
with the deposition of
cholesterol in arterial
plaques, growths that
develop on the inner walls of
arteries
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Animal systems
What are low-density
lipoproteins?
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Animal systems
The regions of the brain in
which the main breathing
control centers are located
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Animal systems
What are the medulla
oblongata and the
pons?
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Ecology
Zone in a lake in which
water is too deep to
support rooted aquatic
plants and is inhabited by
a variety of phytoplankton
and cyanobacteria
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Ecology
What is the limnetic
zone?
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Ecology
A life history in which
adults only have one
single opportunity to
produce large
numbers of offspring
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Ecology
What is semelparity?
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Ecology
This hypothesis suggests that
moderate levels of
disturbance can create
conditions that foster greater
species diversity than low or
high levels
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Ecology
What is the
intermediate
disturbance
hypothesis?
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Ecology
An analysis that
predicts a
population’s chances
for survival
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Ecology
Population viability
analysis
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Ecology
The fraction of energy
stored in food that is not
used for respiration
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Ecology
What is production
efficiency?
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Labs
An instrument that measures
the proportions of light of
different wavelengths
absorbed and transmitted by
a pigment solution
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Labs
What is a
spectrometer?
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Labs
A microscope used to study the
internal ultrastructure of cells
that aims an electron beam
through a very thin section of
the specimen
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Labs
What is a transmission
electron microscope?
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Labs
Used to isolate cell
components based on
size and density
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Labs
What is cell
fractionation?
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Labs
Equation used to
calculate genotype
frequencies
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Labs
What is
2
2
p + 2pq + q = 1?
Back
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Labs
The distance from the
centromere in a
chromosome
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Labs
What is % crossover?
2
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Biotechnology
A DNA molecule that
can carry foreign DNA
into a cell and
replicate there
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Biotechnology
What is a cloning
vector?
Back
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Biotechnology
In identifying a cell containing
a gene of interest the DNA of
the gene is detected by its
ability to base-pair with a
complementary sequence on
another nucleic acid molecule
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Biotechnology
What is nucleic acid
hybridization?
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Biotechnology
A brief electrical pulse applied
to a solution containing cells
that creates temporary holes
in their plasmid membranes
through which DNA can enter
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Biotechnology
What is
electroporation?
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Biotechnology
The systematic study of full
protein sets
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Biotechnology
What is proteomics?
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Biotechnology
The most commonly used vector
for introducing new genes into
plant cells
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Biotechnology
What is the Ti plasmid?
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Final
Jeopardy!!!
Final Jeopardy!!!
Rocklike structures composed
of many layers of bacteria and
sediment
Final Jeopardy!!!
What are stromatolites?