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BIO S2 FINAL REVIEW
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time is
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The theory that the continents are drifting on large plates across Earth’s surface is called .
plate tectonics
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What is comparative embryology?
Studying the structures of organisms during early stages of development is called
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What is the function of an endospore?
to survive a lack of nutrients or other extreme conditions
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tuna
salad
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What is the founder effect?
a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.
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How many chromosomes in the human genome?
23
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with or
without you
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What is apoptosis?
cell death
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True or False: Cladistics calculates molecular clocks
False
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What is a prokaryote?
A cell without a nucleus or membrane bound organelles
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True or False: DNA Polymerase unwinds the DNA strand
False
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What is the difference between DNA and RNA?
no thymine but there is uracil
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True or false: gene regulation can control the production of specific proteins?
true
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list 3 different types of fossils
amber, trace, molds/casts, replacement, petrified/permineralized, original material
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What is a genotype made up of?
alleles for a traite
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Summarize the important components of DNA and describe important aspects of its structure
phosphate group, sugar, nucleotide base, bound by h-bonds, double helix, antiparallel etc
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True or False: all protists are heterotrophic eukaryotes?
False
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During replication the DNA is unwound by the enzyme
helicase
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What is a retrovirus
a virus with RNA
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breeding things with similar traits
in breeding
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Who took the famous picture 51 that helped identify the structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin
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practice makes
perfect
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True or false: Manchester United SUCKS!
True
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a centromere is
The structure that attaches sister chromatids
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What is the difference between purine and pyrimidine bases, and list 1 of each
Purine: 2 rings, Adenine/guanine, Pyrimidine: 1 ring thymine
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how is a virus different from a prion?
a prion is an infectious protein substance, a virus is dna surrounded by a protein coat
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True or false: kingdom bacteria has autotrophs
True
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True or false: chromatin is a part of the spindle aparatus
false
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the central dogma of biology is?
DNA codes for RNA which guides the synthesis of proteins
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substances that cause cancer are called?
carcinogens
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true or false: aster fibers are part of the spindle aparatus
true
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what is a cyclin
Special proteins that bind to enzymes during the cell cycle
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what is a carrier
someone who is heterozygous for a genetic disorder, but they do not have the disorder
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breeding things with different traits
hybridization
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What does the word protozoan describe?
animal like protists, hetertroph protists
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incomplete dominance is ?
an intermediate heterozygous phenotype between two homozygous phenotypes
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What does homozygous mean?
it has two of the same alleles for a trait.
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knowledge is
power
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What happens in conjugation?
the exchange of DNA
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Archaea are also called
extremophiles
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fortune favors the ???
bold
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What is a gene?
A segment of DNA
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true or false: hox genes are an example of prokaryotic gene regulation
false
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What is bioremediation
using living organisms to clean pollutants from the environment
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What are the three sections of geologic time called
eon, era, period
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