Cell Organism – Biology Quiz 5
The key terms of Biology Quiz include, Cell, Organism, Enzyme, Specie.
HMS Beagle
name of ship that Darwin traveled on
Erasmus Darwin
Charles Darwin’s grandfather who did selective breeding on his farm
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
If someone cuts off their finger, their offspring wont have a finger; NOT TRUE
the individuals of a species that live in a specific geographical area and can interbreed
natural selection
Individuals more fit to survive will pass their good traits onto their offspring
vestigial structures
structures considered to be evidence of an organism’s evolutionary past
coenzymes
vitamins
cofactors
minerals
islets of Langerhans
cells in the pancreas that produce insulin
insulin
allows glucose in the blood to enter the cells
viroid
infectious agent that consists of a small strand of DNA that causes diseases in plants
bioremediation
bacteria that can take toxic things and make them nontoxic
introns
not coding
exons
coding
RNA
nucleic acid made up of ribose
uracil
a nitrogenous base found only in RNA
T
thyamine
A
adenine
C
cytosine
G
guanine
messenger RNA
RNA that carries the instructions for making a protein from a gene and then delivers it to the site of translation
codons
series of three bases that make an amino acid
transfer RNA
RNA that temporarily carries a specific amino acid on one end
anticodon
a three-nucleotide sequence on a tRNA that is complementary to a mRNA codon
age of Earth
4.5 billion years
Primordial Soup
1920s model by Oparin and Haldane that says the oceans were filled with organic molecules, fueled by lightening and sun
Bubble Model
Louis Lehrman model, that bubbles come from underwater volcanoes and then release into atmosphere
microspheres
droplet of a lipid, precursors to the first cells
coacervates
droplets of amino acids and sugars
cyanobacteria
photosynthetic prokaryotes
eubacteria
prokaryotes that contain peptidoglycan in their cell walls
archaebacteria
prokaryotes that do not contain peptidoglycan
endosymbiosis
Lynn Margulis’s theory that says mitochondria are smaller aerobes eaten by larger anaerobes
mycorrhizae
symbiotic relationship between fungus and the roots of a plant
vertebrate something with a backbone
agnathan
jawless, finless fish
HMS Beagle
name of ship that Darwin traveled on
Erasmus Darwin
Charles Darwin’s grandfather who did selective breeding on his farm
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
If someone cuts off their finger, their offspring wont have a finger; NOT TRUE
population
the individuals of a species that live in a specific geographical area and can interbreed
natural selection
Individuals more fit to survive will pass their good traits onto their offspring
vestigial structures
structures considered to be evidence of an organism’s evolutionary past