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| A scientific theory explains something in... |
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| what is the correct order for scientific method? |
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| observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion |
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| what is the smallest living entity? |
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| true of false...archae are a type of bacteria? |
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| if a fungicide killed all of the fungi in an area, what would happen? |
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| there would be a build up of dead plant and animal material in the area |
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| both mosses and ferns need to be close to a water source. why? |
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| they need water for reproduction |
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| A substance with specific properties that cannot be broken down or converted into another substance is called? |
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| What component of an atom determines its bonding status? |
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| all of water's biological importance comes from... |
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| its ability to make hydrogen bonds |
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| if you add acid to water it will... |
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| why is carbon one of the most important elements? |
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| it can form 4 covalent bonds |
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| what is true of prokaryotic cells? |
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| they do not have a nucleus |
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| if an antibiotic blocks the function of ribosomes in a cell, what is ultimately blocked? |
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| what maintains the cell's shape, anchors the organelles, and helps a cell move? |
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| true or false...the cytoplasm fills the cytosol? |
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| what is the main function of the mitochondria in a cell? |
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| which would diffuse thru the plasma membrane the easiest? |
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| what is not a function of cell membrane proteins? |
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| they block the movement of hydrophobic molecules thru the cell membrane |
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| the fatty acid tails of the phospholipid bilayer are... |
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| for diffusion to take place there must always be... |
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| true or false...ATP is a long term energy storage molecule? |
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| what would release energy? |
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| removing sugars from glycogen molecules |
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| the conversion of ADP to ATP... |
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| metabolism is the sum of all... |
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| chemical reactions that a cell carries out |
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| enzymes are_____and are therefore made of _______ |
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| true or false...enzymes are changed in the reactions they catalyze? |
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| how many ATP are made during cellular respiration? |
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| While you are running, your heart rate increases to deliver more oxygen to your muscles. This oxygen is needed to... |
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| accept electrons from the electron transport chain |
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| There are _____ turns of the Krebs cycle because _____ pyruvate molecules go into the Krebs cycle from glycolysis. |
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| the CO2 that we breathe out comes from... |
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| the purpose of cellular respiration is... |
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| breaking down the food we eat into energy |
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| during photosynthesis, the sugars are made during... |
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| which structure in the leaf is the site of photosynthesis? |
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| The main accomplishment of photosynthesis is... |
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| changing solar energy into chemical energy |
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| The Calvin cycle involves CO2 fixation, which means fixing... |
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| gas into organic molecules |
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| true or false...CO2 is required for the light reactions of photosynthesis? |
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| a heart cell from a human male has... |
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| 22 pairs of autosomes and a X and Y chromosome |
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| if you saw a cell under the microscope how would you know it is in anaphase? |
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| sister chromatids are separating |
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| how many nuclear envelopes must form when a cell reaches telophase of mitosis? |
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| when does DNA replication take place during the cell cycle? |
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| division of the cytoplasm, and therefore the cell, is called? |
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| What would happen if crossing over and independent assortment did not happen? |
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| there would be less genetic variation |
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| what happens in both anaphase of mitosis and anaphase II of meiosis II? |
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| sister chromatids separate |
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| what are examples of gametes? |
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| a 2n cell from an organism has 40 chromosomes. how many chromosomes would be in a cell from the uterus of this organism? |
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| The genetic makeup of an individual is called... |
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| true or false...genotype determines phenotype? |
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| The ratios 3:1 and 9:3:3:1 refer to... |
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| phenotypes in a cross of 2 heterozygous individuals |
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| true or false... the dominant phenotype will be expressed in homozygous dominant and heterozygous individuals? |
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| true or false... the dominant phenotype will be expressed in homozygous dominant and heterozygous individuals? |
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| Gardner's syndrome is caused by a dominant allele. That means that a person with Gardner's syndrome... |
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| Conditions caused by a dominant allele means that you only need one copy of the allele to have the condition. So that means that anything other than recessive will have the condition |
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| true or false...A woman who has one X chromosome with the gene for red-green color blindness is color blind? |
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| false (Color blindness is an X linked condition. A woman would have to have 2 X chromosomes with gene for color blindness to be color blind.) |
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| this base pairing is incorrect... |
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| What does semi-conservative replication mean? |
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| the new DNA molecule consists of one "old" parent strand and one new strand (when DNA replicates and one DNA molecule "unzips" one strand from the original "parent" strand becomes the template for the new strand) |
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| The lagging strand is made from... |
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| the maximum population density of a species that a defined geographic region can support is called the... |
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| an organism that is photosynthetic, and whose removal from an ecosystem would have a bigger impact than the removal of any other organism is known as a... |
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| true or false... the study of ecology is the study of the environment? |
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| false (ecology is the study of the interactions among living things and their environment) |
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| true or false... predator prey relationships help stimulate adaptations in evolution? |
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| how much energy from one trophic level is available to the next? |
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| k species are said to be stable and experience equilibrium. the size of their population is dependent on the resources available to them and they compete among themselves for resources |
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| N2 gas in the atmosphere is converted to forms of nitrogen that is usable by vegetation by nitrogen |
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| a wolf eats a rabbit that eats the grass on the prairie. the wolf is a... |
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| secondary consumer (producers are photosynthetic organisms. primary consumers are plant eaters. secondary consumers are carnivores and eat herbivores almost exclusively. tertiary consumers are secondary consumer predators.) |
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| which biome has warm weather, abundant moisture, and a large degree of species diversity? |
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| a collection of the world's ecosystems is called... |
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| Which of the follow levels of organization is most inclusive? |
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| which of the following muscle tissues can we consciously control? |
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| as you think about answering this question, which tissue type is responsible for this? |
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| white blood cells function in which system? |
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| what is not a tissue type? |
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| What is the functional cell of the nervous system- which cell carries the neural impulses? |
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| which part of the brain contains structures that control involuntary actions like breathing? |
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| which of the following would tell your brain that you have touched something hot? |
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| what is not a type of hormone? |
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| what type of feedback does hormone secretion run on? |
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| What is the difference between non specific and specific immunity? |
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| nonspecific defenses do not discriminate between one type of pathogen and another, specific defenses work on one type of pathogen at a time |
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| cell mediated immunity is provided by... |
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| What is the main cell type of antibody mediated immunity... |
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| If you take away the red and white blood cells and the platelets from the blood, what are you left with? |
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| where is most of the oxygen in blood found? |
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| the function of the respiratory system is... |
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| allow gas exchange between the environment and our bodies |
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| where does digestion being? |
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| what is the basic functional unit of the kidney? |
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| the largest amount of digestion occurs in... |
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