Cells
Labs
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Molecular
Genetics
Cell
Division
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Cells
These structures are
present in animal cells
but not plant cells.
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Cells
What are lysosomes,
centrioles, and
flagella?
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Cells
This cellular system includes the nuclear
envelope, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi
apparatus, lysosomes, and the plasma
membrane. Its members carry out tasks
which include the synthesis and transport
of proteins, metabolism of lipids, and
detoxification of poisons.
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Cells
What is the
endomembrane
system?
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Cells
These perforations in plant
cell walls connect the
chemical environment of
adjacent cells.
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Cells
What are
plasmodesmata?
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Cells
This organelle has cis and
trans faces which accept
and give rise to transport
vesicles, respectively.
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Cells
What is the Golgi
apparatus?
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Cells
These components of the cytoskeleton
are composed of tubulin subunits.
They separate the chromosomes
during cell division and also serve as
the tracks along which secretory
vesicles move.
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Cells
What are
microtubules?
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Labs
In this process,
proteins or nucleic
acids are separated
by migration towards
an anode.
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Labs
What is
electrophoresis?
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Labs
In an experiment, a researcher
compared the oxygen
consumption of germinating pea
seeds, nongerminating pea
seeds, and glass beads. Of the
three groups, this served as the
experiment’s control.
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What are the glass beads?
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Labs
The water flea, or
Daphnia, gets its heat
from the environment. It
exhibits this type of
metabolic regulation.
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Labs
What is ectothermy?
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Labs
This test uses the
frequencies of observed
and expected outcomes
to confirm or reject a
null hypothesis.
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Labs
What is chi-square
analysis?
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Labs
A population of 10 males and 10
females becomes geographically
isolated on a remote island. If two of
the individuals are heterozygous for
a recessive trait, the F1 generation
will exhibit this incidence of the
recessive phenotype.
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Labs
What is 0.25%?
2
(2/40 = 5%, so p =
2
(0.05) = 0.0025)
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Photosynthesis
These colors of visible
light work best for
photosynthesis.
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Photosynthesis
What are red and
violet?
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Photosynthesis
In photosynthetic
chemiosmosis, ATP is
synthesized in this
region of the chloroplast.
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Photosynthesis
What is the stroma?
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Photosynthesis
This molecule is the final
electron acceptor in the
ETC of the light
reactions.
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Photosynthesis
What is
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NADP ?
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Photosynthesis
In this system of photosynthesis,
the transport of four-carbon
compounds into bundle-sheath
cells keeps CO2 concentration
high enough for rubisco to
function effectively.
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Photosynthesis
What is C4
photosynthesis?
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Photosynthesis
Electrons take an alternative
path in this process, which
compensates for the ATP
deficit produced by the
Calvin cycle.
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Photosynthesis
What is cyclic electron
flow?
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Respiration
This component of ATP is
displayed in pink in the
following diagram:
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Respiration
What is ribose?
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Respiration
In the presence of O2, this
charged molecule is
actively transported across
the mitochondrial
membrane.
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Respiration
What is pyruvate?
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Respiration
Of the two coenzymes that
function in cellular
respiration, this is the
more efficient.
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Respiration
What is
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NAD ?
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Respiration
Each turn of the citric acid
cycle generates this
many molecules of CO2.
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Respiration
What is two?
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Respiration
This small, hydrophobic
molecule is the only
member of the electron
transport chain that is not
a protein.
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Respiration
What is ubiquinone?
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Molecular Genetics
These DNA segments, first
discovered by Barbara
McClintock, have the ability
to move around the
genome.
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Molecular Genetics
What are transposons?
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Molecular Genetics
This RNA sequence would be
transcribed from the DNA
strand complementary to
the following: TTCATGCAA.
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Molecular Genetics
What is UUCAUGCAA?
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Molecular Genetics
DNA damage is typically
repaired by the action of
these DNA-cutting
enzymes.
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Molecular Genetics
What are nucleases?
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Molecular Genetics
Because half of an original DNA
molecule is retained in each of its
two daughter molecules, DNA is
said to adhere to this model of
replication.
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Molecular Genetics
What is the
semiconservative
model?
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Molecular Genetics
In order to replicate DNA in the
mandatory 5’ 3’ direction, these
segments of the lagging strand must
be joined by DNA ligase.
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Molecular Genetics
What are Okazaki
fragments?
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Cell Division
In this stage of mitosis,
kinetochore microtubules
shorten and the sister
chromatids migrate to
opposite poles.
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Cell Division
What is anaphase?
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Cell Division
During crossing-over, DNA segments
are exchanged between these parts
of the homologous chromosomes.
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Cell Division
What are non-sister
chromatids?
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Cell Division
The G2 mitotic promoter
MPF is a complex
composed of these two
proteins.
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Cell Division
What are cyclin and
cyclin-dependent
kinase (Cdk)?
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Cell Division
Nondisjunction during this
phase could result in the
following set of gametes:
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Cell Division
What is meiosis I?
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Cell Division
Although chromatin is generally
less condensed in interphase
than in the other mitotic stages,
it still displays looped domains
and packing around these
positively charged proteins.
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Cell Division
What are histones?
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Evolution &
Classification
Animal
Systems
Plant
Systems
Ecology
Biotech
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Evolution & Classification
These anatomical structures,
derived from a common ancestor,
evolved over time to serve
different purposes.
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Evolution & Classification
What are homologous
structures?
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Evolution & Classification
Through this process, new species
evolve from a common ancestor
while inhabiting the same
physical region.
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Evolution & Classification
What is sympatric
speciation?
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Evolution & Classification
This type of selection favors
organisms with moderate traits
and selects against both
phenotypic extremes.
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Evolution & Classification
What is stabilizing
selection?
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Evolution & Classification
According to Hardy-Weinberg
theory, these five conditions
must be met if the population
is to remain genotypically
constant.
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Evolution & Classification
What are large population size,
random mating, no
mutations, no immigration or
emigration, and no natural
selection?
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Evolution & Classification
All vertebrate embryos display these
fishlike features that in humans go
on to form the jaw, inner ear,
cartilage and hyoid bones.
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Evolution & Classification
What are pharyngeal
gill slits?
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Animal Systems
Blood pressure is at its
highest in this vessel.
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Animal Systems
What is the aorta?
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Animal Systems
This enzyme begins the
chemical breakdown of
starch into maltose.
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Animal Systems
What is salivary
amylase?
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Animal Systems
Developing protostomes
exhibit this type of
cleavage.
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Animal Systems
What is spiral and
determinate?
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Animal Systems
This hormone, secreted by
the posterior pituitary,
increases the absorption
of water by nephrons.
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Animal Systems
What is antidiuretic
hormone (ADH)?
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Animal Systems
The bacteria found in the
large intestine are the
main producers of this
essential vitamin.
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Animal Systems
What is vitamin K?
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Plant Systems
This belt of waxy suberin in
plant roots blocks the
movement of water and
minerals between
endodermal cells.
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Plant Systems
What is the Casparian
strip?
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Plant Systems
The transition from bryophytes
to tracheophytes was marked
by the reduction of this stage
in the plant life cycle.
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Plant Systems
What is the
gametophyte stage?
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Plant Systems
This plant hormone
induces leaf abscission
and promotes the
ripening of fruit.
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Plant Systems
What is ethylene?
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Plant Systems
This class of angiosperm has
petals in 4s and 5s, broad
leaves with netted veins,
and two seed leaves.
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Plant Systems
What are dicots?
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Plant Systems
This complex, involved in
photoperiodism, inhibits
flowering in short-day plants and
induces flowering in long-day
plants.
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Plant Systems
What is phytochrome?
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Ecology
This is the most
common pattern of
dispersion in
population ecology.
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Ecology
What is clumped?
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Ecology
In this phase of ecological
succession, a community has
been cleared by a disturbance
that leaves the soil profile
intact.
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Ecology
What is secondary
succession?
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Ecology
Sea turtle and octopus
populations could be
expected to demonstrate
this type of survivorship
curve.
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Ecology
What is Type III
survivorship?
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Ecology
In this model, an innocuous
species mimics an
unpalatable or harmful
doppelganger.
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Ecology
What is Batesian
mimicry?
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Ecology
According to this phenomenon,
characteristics are more
divergent in sympatric
populations of two species than
in allopatric populations of the
same two species.
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Ecology
What is character
displacement?
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Biotech
The image below depicts this, a
large collection of singlestranded DNA fragments fixed to
a glass slide.
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Biotech
What is a DNA
microarray?
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Biotech
This term describes the
study of the protein
sets encoded by
genomes.
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Biotech
What is proteomics?
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Biotech
The denaturation stage
of PCR requires the
use of this heatresistant enzyme.
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Biotech
What is Taq polymerase?
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Biotech
The refinement of this
sequencing technique
developed by Frederick
Sanger was instrumental in
the success of the Human
Genome Project.
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Biotech
What is
dideoxyribonucleotide
chain-termination?
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Biotech
This plasmid, the most
commonly used vector for
introducing new genes into
plant cells, is derived from
the soil bacterium
Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
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Biotech
What is the Ti plasmid?
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Things We Didn’t Cover
Cone cells are most
dense in this region of
the human eye.
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What is the fovea?
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During these seasons,
many lakes in
temperate regions are
thermally stratified.
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What are summer and
winter?
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This term describes a group
of species that includes a
common ancestor and all its
descendents.
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What is a clade?
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Paleoanthropologists have seen
a strong connection between
the rise of savannas and the
rise of this characteristic in
early hominids.
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What is bipedalism?
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Many ecologists have raised
concern over this, an unintended
consequence of genetic
engineering in which enhanced
GMOs hybridize with wild
relatives to form ‘superweeds.’
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Things We Didn’t Cover
What is transgene
escape?
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This Canadian
gameshow host is
an insufferable
know-it-all.
Oh, I know!
Pick me, pick
me!
Final Jeopardy!!!
An experiment by these two
scientists contributed to our
understanding of the chemical
origins of life.
Final Jeopardy!!!
Who are Miller and Urey?