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What is a group of individuals of the same species living in a specific geographical area and reproducing?

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Population

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What is a single-celled organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus and specialized organelles?

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Prokaryote

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What is a type of gene recombination in which the DNA is intentionally broken and recombined in labs?

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Recombination (Gene)

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What is a cellular structure made of RNA and proteins that is the site of protein synthesis in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells?

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Ribosome

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What is a trait, associated with a gene that is carried by either a male or female parent (ex: color blindness, sickle cell anemia)?

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Sex-Linked Trait

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What is a proposed explanation in evolutionary biology stating that new species arise from the result of slight modifications over many generations?

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Succession

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What is the movement of particles from an area of low concentration to an area of high concentration that uses energy provided by ATP or a difference in electrical charges across a cell membrane?

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Active Transport

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What is a molecule that provides energy for cellular reactions and processes when a high energy bond is broken to create a phosphate group?

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Adenosine Triphosphate

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What is a group of biomacromolecules that interact with biological systems an their environments?

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Biological Macromolecule

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What are proteins that are embedded in the plasma membrane involved in the movement of ions, small molecules, and macromolecules into and out of the cells: also known as transport protein?

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Carrier Proteins

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What is the series of events that takes place in a cell leading to its division and duplication?

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Cell Cycle

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What is a process in which a cell, cell product, or organism is copied from its original source?

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Cloning

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What is the process in which DNA makes a duplicate copy of itself?

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DNA Cloning

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What occurs when individuals or groups of organisms compete for similar resources such as territory, mates, water and food in the same environment?

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Competition

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What is the process in which the DNA molecule uncoils and separates into two strands where each original strand becomes a template on which a new strand is constructed, resulting in two DNA molecules identical to the original DNA molecule?

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DNA Replication

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What is a species that is found in its originating location and is generally restricted to that geographic area?

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Endemic Species

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What is the total surroundings of an organism or group of organisms?

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Environment

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What is a term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals?

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Extinction

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What is the permanent movement of genes into or out of a population resulting in a change in allele frequencies?

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Genetic Drift

20
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What is the combination of components and processes that serve a common function?

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Mechanism

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What is a two-phase nuclear division that results in the eventual production of gametes with half the normal number of chromosomes.?

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Meiosis

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What is a change in allele frequency of a population as a result of chance events rather than natural selection?

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Migration

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What is more than two forms of a gene controlling expression of a trait?

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Multiple Alleles

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What is a species normally living outside a distribution range that has been introduced through either deliberate or accidental human activity?

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Nonnative Species

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What is the measure of acidity or alkalinity of an aqueous solution scaling from 1(highly acidic) to 14(highly alkaline/basic) with a midpoint of 7(neutral)?

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pH

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What is an organism that uses a primary energy source to conduct photosynthesis or chemosynthesis?

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Producer

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What are any of several mechanisms in which ions or molecules are transported across a cellular membrane requiring the use of an energy source?

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Pumps (Ion/Molecular)

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What is the transfer of a DNA fragment from one organism to a self-replicating genetic element?

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Semiconservative Replication

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What is a term that describes an organism associated with a land environment?

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Terrestrial

30
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What is the process of taking undifferentiated embryonic cells for use in medical research?

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Theraputic Cloning

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What is the process in which the messenger RNA molecule on a ribosome is decoded to produce a sequence of amino acids for protein synthesis?

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Translation

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What is the position of an organism in relation to the flow of energy and inorganic nutrients through an ecosystem?

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Trophic Levels

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