Topic 1: Cells-structure, function, membranes,

different types

Topic 2: Photosynthesis

Topic 3: Respiration

Topic 4: cell division-mitosis and meiosis

Topic 5: Molecular genetics – transcription,

translation, DNA structure

& replication, genetics

Topic 6: Evolution & classification - natural selection, speciation,

classification

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CellsPhotosyn

thesisRespiration Cell

division-mitosis

and meiosis

Evolution and

Classification

Plant Systems

Cells

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This bond is formed when a hydrogen atom covalently bonded to one

electronegative atom is also attracted to another electronegative

atom

Cells

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What is a hydrogen bond?

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In a prokaryotic cell, the DNA is concentrated in this region that is not separated from the rest of

the region by a membrane

Cells

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What is a nucleoid?

Cells

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Amoebas and many other protists eat by engulfing smaller organisms or other food particles in this process

Cells

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What is phagocytosis?

Cells

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The chloroplast is a specialized member of closely related plant organelles called…

Cells

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What are plastids?

Cells

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Cells

The tissue in the interior of the leaf

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What is the mesophyll?

Cells

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“self-feeders” that sustain themselves by producing

their organic materials from CO2 and other inorganic raw materials obtained from the

environment

Photosynthesis

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What are autotrophs?

Photosynthesis

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A type of photosynthetic cells that is arranged into

tightly packed sheaths around the veins of a leaf

Photosynthesis

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What are bundle-sheath cells?

Photsynthesis

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What colors on the spectrum are most effective in driving

photsynthesis?

Photsynthesis

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What are violet-blue and red?

Photsynthesis

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Plants that preface the Calvin cycle with an

alternative mode of carbon fixation that forms a four-carbon compound as its

first product

Photsynthesis

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What are C4 plants?

Photosynthesis

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The process that requires cooperation

of the two photosystems

Photosynthesis

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What is reduction of NADP+?

Photosynthesis

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The enzyme that makes ATP from ADP and inorganic

phosphate in the intermembrane of the

mitochondrion

Respiration

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What is ATP synthase?

Respiration

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The catabolic process that is a partial

degradation of sugars that occurs without the

use of oxygen

Respiration

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What is fermentation?

Respiration

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The transfer of one or more electrons in chemical reactions from one reactant to another

Respiration

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What are redox reactions?

Respiration

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This occurs in the cytosol and begins the

degradation process by breaking glucose into two

molecules of pyruvate

Respiration

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What is glycolysis?

Respiration

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The enzyme that catalyzes step 3 of

glycolysis

Respiration

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Phosphofructokinase

Respiration

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The result of mitotic cell division

Cell division

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What are genetically identical daughter

cells?

Cell division

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The products of meiosis

Cell division

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What are gametes?

Cell division

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The meiosis phase in which chromosomes replicate during the S

phase but remain uncondensed

Cell division

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What is interphase?

Cell division

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The spread of cancer cells to locations distant from their

original site

Cell division

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What is metastasis?

Cell division

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The longest stage of mitosis

Cell division

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What is metaphase?

Cell division

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The process by which humans have modified other species over many generations by

selecting and breeding individuals that possessed

desired traits

Evolution/Classification

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What is artificial selection?

Evolution

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Structures of marginal, if any, importance to

the organism

Evolution/Classification

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What are vestigial organs?

Evolution/Classification

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The theorem that states that the frequencies of alleles and genotypes in a population’s gene pool remain

constant from generation to generation, provided that only

Mendelian segregation and recombination of alleles are at work

Evolution/Classification

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What is the Hardy-Weinberg theorem?

Evolution/Classification

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The contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the

next generation, relative to the contributions of other

individuals

Evolution/Classification

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What is fitness?

Evolution/Classification

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A state of stable frequencies of two or

more phenotypic forms in a population

Evolution/Classification

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What is balanced polymorphism?

Evolution/Classification

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How plants obtain nitrogen

Plant systems

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What is nitrogen-fixing bacteria?

Plant systems

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The nutritional requirements of

plants

Plant systems

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What are H20, C02, O2, and minerals?

Plant systems

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The loss of water vapor through leaves that pull water up from the roots

Plant systems

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What is transpiration?

Plant systems

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The chemical element that controls the opening and

closing of guard cells

Plant systems

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What is K+?

Plant systems

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When a plant cell’s protoplasts shrink and pull away from its wall when as water leaves the

cell by osmosis

Plant systems

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What is plasmolyzation?

Plant systems

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Topic 7: Animal Systems

Topic 8:Ecology

Topic 9:Labs

Topic 10: Biotechnology

Topic 11:Molecular genetics –

transcription, translation,

DNA structure & replication, genetics

Topic 12: Stuff We Didn’t Cover

Animal Systems

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Molecular Genetics

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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BiotechnologyLabsEcology

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When the immune system loses tolerance for self

and turns against certain molecules of the body

Animal Systems

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What is an autoimmune disease?

Animal Systems

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A chemical involved in a localized inflammatory

response that triggers dilation and increased permeability of

nearby capillaries

Animal Systems

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What is histamine?

Animal Systems

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The source of O2 for animals

Animal Systems

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What is the respiratory medium?

Animal Systems

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Cells on the interior surface of the

stomach that secrete hydrochloric acid

Animal Systems

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What are parietal cells?

Animal Systems

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Another name for red blood cells, the most numerous type

of blood cells

Animal Systems

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What are erythrocytes?

Animal Systems

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The type of ecology that applies ecological principles to return

humanly disturbed ecosystems back to their

normal state

Ecology

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What is restoration ecology?

Ecology

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A species-rich boundary between

ecosystems

Ecology

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What is a boundary?

Ecology

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The four abiotic components of climate

Ecology

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What are temperature, water, sunlight, and

wind?

Ecology

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Species whose population size is primarily

determined by birth rate

Ecology

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What are R-related species?

Ecology

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The theory that views foraging behavior as a

compromise between the benefits of nutrition and

the costs of obtaining food

Ecology

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What is the optimal foraging theory?

Ecology

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Inquiry: Do the alleles for seed color and seed

shape sort into gametes dependently or independently?

Labs

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Conclusion: The results supported the hypothesis of

independent assortment. The alleles for seed color and

seed shape sort into games independently of each other

Labs

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Field study: Ecologists MacArthur and Wilson studies the number of plant species on the Galapagos Islands,

which vary greatly in size, in relation to the area of each

island

Labs

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Conclusion: The results of the study showed that plant species richness

increased with island size, supporting the species-area theory

Labs

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Inquiry: How does interrupting the dark

period plants need with a brief exposure to light

affect flowering?

Labs

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Conclusion: Flowering of each species was determined by a

critical period of darkness for that species, not by a specific period of

light. Therefore, “short-day” plants are really “long-night”

plants, and “long-day” plants are really “short-night” plants

Labs

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Inquiry: Can predation pressure select for

size and age at maturity in guppies?

Labs

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Conclusion: Reznic and Endler (experimenters) found that the change in predator resulted in

different variations in the population being favored. Over a short time, this altered selection

pressure resulted in an observable evolutionary change in

the experimental population

Labs

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Inquiry: How does distribution of the gray

crescent at the first cleavage affect the potency of the two

daughter cells?

Labs

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Conclusion: The totipotency of the two blastomeres normally

formed during the first cleavage division depends on

cytoplasmic determinants localized in the gray crescent

Labs

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Genomics

Biotechnology

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What is the study of whole sets of genes

and their interactions?

Biotechnology

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A method to separate DNA or proteins

based on size and charge

Biotechnology

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What is gel electrophoresis?

Biotechnology

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A cloning vector that contains a highly active prokaryotic promoter just upstream of a restriction site where the eukaryotic gene can be

inserted in the correct reading frame

Biotechnology

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What is an expression vector?

Biotechnology

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The combination of RFLP and nucleic acid probe

hybridization that transfers DNA from gel to a solid

substrate

Biotechnology

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What is Southern blot analysis?

Biotechnology

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A tool for cloning eukaryotic genes which combine the essentials of a eukaryotic

chromosome- an origin for DNA replication, a centromere, and

two telomeres, with foreign DNA

Biotechnology

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What are yeast artificial

chromosomes (YACs)?

Biotechnology

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The carrier of information from DNA to the cell’s protein-synthesized machinery;

transcribed from the template strand of a gene

Molecular Genetics

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What is messenger RNA?

Molecular Genetics

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The replacement of one nucleotide and its partner with another pair of nucleotides

Molecular Genetics

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What is a base-pair substitution?

Molecular Genetics

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The noncoding segments of nucleic acid that lie between

coding regions

Molecular Genetics

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What are introns?

Molecular Genetics

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How new genes evolve

Molecular Genetics

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What is exon shuffling?

Molecular Genetics

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An enzyme that catalyzes the elongation of new DNA at a replication fork by the addition of nucleotides to

the existing chain

Molecular Genetics

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What is DNA polymerase?

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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The perceptions of olfaction; dependent on

chemoreceptors that detect specific chemicals in the

environment

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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What is smell?

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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This type of eye found in some invertebrates such as insects

consists of up to several thousand light detectors

called ommatidia

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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What are compound eyes?

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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When focusing on a close object, the lens of the eye becomes almost

spherical

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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What is accommodation?

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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Cells that synapse with bipolar cells and transmit action potentials to the

brain via axons in the optic nerve

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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What are ganglion cells?

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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When signal molecules cause changes in nearby

target cells

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What is induction?

Stuff We Didn’t Cover

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The ability of the zygote in many species to develop into all the cells types found in the

adult

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What is totipotency?

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