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| Living Things adjust to a stimulus by a reaction called a ___________. |
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| A testable explanation for a question or problem is a _________. |
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| The single factor that is altered in an experiment is the __________. |
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| Its flow through ecosystems determines how organisms interact and power all life processes. |
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| The part of an experiment in which all conditions are kept the same. |
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| The factor being tested in an experiment. |
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| Nitrogen is released to the Abiotic parts of the biosphere from the process death and ________. |
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| Living & Nonliving things |
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| Ecology is the study of relationships among ________. |
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| "In the carbon cycle, in what form are carbon atoms generally returned to the atmosphere?" |
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| Organisms that use the Sun's energy to make food are called ___________. |
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| A collection of interacting populations is called a ____________. |
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| A network of interconnected food chains is called a ___________________. |
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| Temperature & Precipitation |
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| Location of biomes are usually determined by __________. |
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| "After a community is disrupted by large scale events, such as forest fires, a new community is established through the process of ___________." |
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| Which terrestrial biome houses the most diversity? |
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| The regular progression of species replacement in an environment. |
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| Succession is _______________. |
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| The body of water where freshwater from a river mixes with salt water is called ___________. |
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| Land populated with broad-0leaved hardwood trees that lose their leaves annually is called __________. |
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| A population that grows until it reaches carrying capacity usually has the shape of a(n) ______________. |
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| The movement of individuals from a population is __________________. |
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| Which of the following factors is density-dependent? |
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| "Storms, cold temps, & drought are all ______________." |
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| A female's fertility rate is the number of offspring she produces ____________________. |
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| A J-shaped growth curve indicates a population is experiencing __________________. |
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| The major threat to biodiversity is ____________. |
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| Water & air pollution are examples of _______________. |
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| Capture of Endangered Species |
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| Reintroduction programs involve the __________________. |
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| Decreased species diversity within an area |
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| Habitat fragmentation often leads to ________________. |
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| The reduction of the ozone layers is caused by ______________. |
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| "DDT was effective in killing insects. However, which organism was endangered most by its use." |
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| Electrons move about the nucleus of an atom in regions called _____________________. |
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| A very strong base might have a pH of ________. |
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| "The total number of atoms in a molecule of sucrose, C12H22O11, is ______." |
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| "A ________ is formed which 2 atoms share electrons, such as with H and O in water." |
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| Which are the building blocks of all objects? |
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| An acid is any substance what forms _________ in water. |
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| "If a cell contains a nucleus, it must be ________." |
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| Proteins are assembled by which organelles? |
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| "A membrane-bound, fluid filled sac (providing temporary storage of food, enzymes, or waste products) is called a _________." |
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| This organelle produces a useable form of energy in the form of ATP for the cell. |
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| The microscope that allowed scientists to vies molecules. |
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| "When a cell is ready to reproduce, its DNA is paced into _________." |
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| Water moves out of a cell if the cell is placed in a __________ solution. |
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| "As a cell grows, its ___________ increases more than its _______." |
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| The longest phase of the cell cycle is _____________. |
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| The division of the nucleus is called __________. |
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| Which of the following does not control the cell cycle? |
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| Chromosomes are made of _________. |
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| A green pigment that raps energy from sunlight is ___________. |
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| Energy is released from ATP when the bond is broken between ____________. |
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| 6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6OI2 |
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| Which of the following equations best represents photosynthesis? |
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| What product of the light-dependent reactions is used in the Calvin cycle? |
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| "_______ processes require oxygen, whereas ________ processes do not." |
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| Which molecule provides the most accessible source of energy for cells? |
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| Crossing over results in __________. |
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| "Mendel's law of segregation states that during meiosis, the factors that control each trait separate, and only __________ from each pair is/are passed on." |
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| The law of independent assortment states that the inheritance of alleles for one trait is not affected by inheritance of alleles for a different trait if the genes fro the traits are on _________________. |
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| "A female guinea pig homozygous dominant for black fur color is mated with a male homozygous for white fur color. In a litter of eight offspring, there would probably be." |
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| A white mouse whose parents are both white produces only brown offspring when mated with a brown mouse. The white mouse is most probably __________________. |
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| During what phase of meiosis do sister chromatids separate? |
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| Watson and Krick were the first to suggest that DNA is a _____________. |
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| The process by which a DNA molecule is copied is called ___________. |
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| mRNA is formed in the process of ________. |
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| A mutation in which a single base is added or deleted from DNA is called a ____________. |
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| The 23rd pair of chromosomes that differs in males and females is are called _____________. |
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| "If a female fruit fly heterozygous for red eyes (XRXr) crossed with a white eyed male (XrY), what percent of the offspring will have white eyes?" |
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| Eye color in humans is the result of ________ inheritance. |
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| Most human genetic disorders are caused by the expression of _____________. |
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| A human genetic defect that results in the failure to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine is __________. |
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| A man heterozygous for blood type A marries a woman heterozygous for blood type B. The chance that their first child will have blood type O is ___________. |
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| The process used to separate DNA segments of different lengths is ________________. |
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| A section of mouse DNA is joined to a bacterial plasmid. The DNA formed is ____________________. |
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| An organism that contains functional recombinant DNA is called a ____________ organism. |
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| _______________ usually increases the appearance of genetic disorders. |
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| ___________ cells are the primary source of the plasmids used in DNA technology today. |
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| General term for a vehicle used to transfer a foreign DNA fragment into a host cell: ____________. |
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| "An exact stone copy of an original organism, the bard parts of which have been penetrated and replaced by minerals is called a(n) ___________." |
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| Most fossils occur in layers of ___________ rock. |
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| The endosymbiant theory suggests how ________ evolved from ___________. |
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| Shallow seas that teemed with life could first be found in the _____________. |
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| Scientists theorize that oxygen buildup in the atmosphere resulted from ________________. |
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| The concept of _____________ will relevant only whether one fossil is older than another. |
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| Survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best adapted to the environment. |
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| Natural selection can best be defined as the _________________________________________. |
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| A pattern of evolution that results when two unrelated species begin to appear similar because of environmental conditions is __________________. |
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| ____________ selection favors one extreme form of a trait in a population. |
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| Provides protection for an organism by copying the appearance of another species. |
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| "When ___________ developed the theory of natural selection in the 1800s, he did not include a genetic explanation." |
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| The entire collection of genes among a population is its ______________. |
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| A group of related classes of plants is a _____________. |
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| The method used to construct a hypothetical evolutionary tree is ______________. |
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| _____________ based most of his classification system on structural similarity. |
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| Linnaeus devised a system for organisms called____________. |
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| All genera of dogs are classified in the taxon called a _________. |
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| Which taxon includes only organisms that can successfully interbreed? |
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| The genetic material of a virus is the ___________. |
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| Viral genes are expressed immediately after the virus infects the host cell in the ____________. |
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| Viral DNA is integrated into the host cell's chromosome in the _____________. |
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| Two identical cells are produced in __________. |
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| The process by which bacteria use enzymes to convert nitrogen gas into ammonia is ____________. |
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| oxygen; obligate anaerobes |
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| Bacteria that require _________ or respiration are called _____________. |
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