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Bio Final '12
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Biology
9th Grade
06/03/2012

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In the 1860's, Gregor Mendel conducted experiments that established...
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Modern Genetics
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What Does the law of independent assortment state?
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Gene pairs segregate randomly and independently of eachother.
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Probability cannot be represented as a...
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pedigree
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When purebred plants self-fertilize, the traits of the offspring...
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are the same as the parental traits
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The law of segregation states that during meiosis each pair of alleles...
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seperates
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What is a trait?
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any characteristic that can be passed from parent to offspring
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A gene has multiple alleles if
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3 or more alleles for the gene are found in a population
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What do punnet squares show?
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all possible results of a genetic cross
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eye color, which involves many genetic factors, is an example of...
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a polygenic trait
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Mendel Hypothesised that each trait is controlled by a factor, now called a...
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gene
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What do geneticists call a genetic cross made to study a single trait?
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monohybrid cross
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in incomplete dominance, there are no...
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dominant or recessive alleles
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A cross that is written RrGg x RrGg is an example of a...
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dihybrid cross
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What is a pedigree
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family tree
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A hybrid is an organism that receives different genetic traits from
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each parent
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A pea plant with a purple-flower allele P and a white-flower allele p is purple because of...
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the law of dominance
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What is protein synthesis?
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the turning off and on of proteins
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What occured when a chromosome breaks and a piece is lost?
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deletion
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What occured when a chromosome breaks and a piece is lost?
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deletion
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What are the types of RNA?
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mRNA, tRNA, rRNA
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Gene mutation can be thought of as
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a change in the nucleotide sequence
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Which of the following descrives a 3 base section of mRNA that codes for an amino acid
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codon
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Qhat is the random nucleotides that dont code for an amino acid?
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intron
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Scientists have determined that the codes for amino acids are
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universal
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After transcription, mRNA leaces the nucleus and moves to
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a ribosome
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The universal start codon is
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AUG
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the complimentaru base of A in an RNA strand is
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U
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Where in the cell does protein synthesis take place?
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The nucleus(translation) and the ribosome(transcription)
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Where do the new base pair and protein components come from?
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The Nucleus?
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Ensure the continuation of the species
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Reproductive system
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Responsivel fo body's detection and asjustment to changes in the environement
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Nervous System
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This system conserves water and regulates the pH of the body(acid/base balance)
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Excretory/Urinary System
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Breaks down large food molecules into a size suitable for use by cells
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Digestive system
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Exchange of gases between the environment and the body happens within this system
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Respiratory System
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Returns tissue fluid to the blood
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Lymphatice system
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Provides points of muscle attachment and makes movement possible
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Skeletal system
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Protects body from microbial invasion
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Integumentary System
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Produces hormones that regulate body function to retain homiostasis
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Endocrine System
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using a specialized fluid, delivers O2 to cells and removes CO2
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Cardiovascular system
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Functions in moving blood and food through organs as well as articulation of body parts
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Muscular System
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Functions in Producing blood cells
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Skeletal System
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Which are invouluntary muscle types?
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Cardiac and Smooth muscle
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The axial skeleton is made up of which bones?
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ribs, vertebre, and sternum
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Which digestive organ removes water from digested food and compacts feces?
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large intestine
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This accessory organ to the Digestive system secrets insulin and bicarbonate ions to nutralixe Chime(bolus plus stomach acid)?
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pancreas
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During inspiration(taking air in) the diaphram__while the lungs___.
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Drops/expands
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Which system works most closely with the Endocrine System?
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Nervous, because it regulares body functions
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Which system works most closly with the respiratory system?
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THe circulatory system bcuz it helps distribute oxygen
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WHich system works most closely with the lymphatic system?
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THe muscular system because it moves lymphocits through the body
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the circulatory system
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Heart and blood vessels
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the Endocrine system
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Thyroid Gland and Pituitary gland
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the Nervous system
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Brain and nerves
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the Integuntary system
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Skin and Hair
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the Lymphatic system
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Tonsils and Lymphatic vessels
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the skeletal system
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Bones and ligiments
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Name the major organs/ srtuctures of the Urinary system
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Kidney and Stomach
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As matter moves up the food the chain, the amount of avalible energy...
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decreceses as population size increases or decreses
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Where does the energy for producers come from?
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The Sun
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Abiotic factors-name 3
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hamster wheel
Water
Plastice Shelves
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The single organism that is responsible for taking nitrogen out of the atmosphere and returning nitrogen back into the atmosphere
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Bacteria
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Name the compound that is naturaly found on earth in 3 physical states of matter
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Water
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In the water cycle water is driven into the atmosphere by what two phenomena?
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Transpiration
evaporation
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Organic compounds contain this element
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Carbon
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The cohesion property means that water molecules have the tendency to sick to _?_
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Themselves
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nonliving part of the environment
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abiotic factor
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study of organisms and their interactions with the environment
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ecology
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members of a single species that live in an area
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population
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region of earth that supports life
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biosphere
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all the populations that live and interact in one environment
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community
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typw of environment inwhich a particular species lives
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habitat
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living parts of the environment
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biotic factors
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union of organisms and abiotic factors
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ecosystem
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is the typical weater pattern of an area over time
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climate
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How is carbon naturally extracted from the atmosphere
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photosynthesis by plants
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Name a non-volatile compound that houses carbon on earth
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limestone, plant matter
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What change during human history has altered this natural cycle?
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The burnig of fossil fuels
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Which organism works to get nitrogen into and out of the atmosphere
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bacteria
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What is the role of legumes in the nitrogen cycle?
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holding bacteria which take out nitrogen and store it
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Example of Predation
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Fox and field mouse, Positive, negative
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Hamerhead shark and barberfish
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mutualism, ++
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Example of Competition
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Human Human,++
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Malaria and Humans
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Parisitism, -+
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Nitrogen fixing bacteria and soybeans
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mutualism, ++
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Phases of mitosis in order?
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Inerphase, Propase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokininesis
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Genetic characteristics
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Geneotype
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1st stafe of developementm union of egg and sperm
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Zygote
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Passing of traits from parent to offspring
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Inheritance
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Physical Characteristics
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Phenotype
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Sex cell
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gamete
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Genetic material held in the nucleus of the cell
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chromosome
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cellular division of growth cells
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mitosis
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celllular devision that produces sex cells
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meiosis
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Expressed characteristics
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Dominant
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Masked characteristic
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Recessive
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