Energy transfer and producers , consumers | cell functions and cell organelles | Convergent Evolution | Genetics / DNA to RNA | |
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed
True or False?
True
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Protects the cell; regulates what substances enter and leave the cell
Cell membrane
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Describe two ways an organism can become a fossil without being buried in sediment.
Organisms can be preserved in tar, amber or ice.
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Birds key flight adaptations?
Feathers, hollow bones, fused bones, lost unnecessary features
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Deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
DNA
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Energy can be transferred from one form into another
True or False?
True
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Sac within the cytoplasm that is full of fluid; plants have one large one; stores food, water, etc.
Vacuole
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How are geologic maps useful to paleontologists?
Geologic maps help paleontologists find rocks of the right age to search for answers to their questions.
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Pterosaur key flight adaptations
Hollow Bones, powerful limbs, Pteroid bone
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organic molecules that serve as the monomers, or subunits, of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA.
Nucleotide
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People who grow, make or sell products are called what?
Producers
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Small organelles that contain chemicals (enzymes) that break down food; garbage disposal unit of cell
Lysosome
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When all members of a species have died off the species is?
extinct
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Bat key flight adaptations
Extended fingers, wing folds, large skin membrane, Carcal bone
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The scientific study of heredity
Genetics
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People who buys and uses goods and services are called what?
Consumers
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During prophase, the chromosomes doubled. The two halves are stuck together in the middle by a centromere. What are the names of these two halves of a doubled chromosome?
Sister chromatids
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How old is Earth?
4 billion years old
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The force animals use to counteract gravity/weight
Lift
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specific physical characteristic that varies from one individual to another
Trait
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Business is the buying and selling of
Goods and Services
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Prokaryotic cells (prokaryotes) are very simple cells that do not have a what?
Nucleus
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What is paleontology?
the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils.
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The process whereby organisms not closely related, independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches
Convergent Evolution
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section of DNA that codes for a specific trait
Gene
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