Science Flashcards
Name the only surviving order of oviparous, egg-laying, mammals.
Monotremata (monotremes)
Platypuses and echidnas/spiny anteaters
Name the body of land in the Atlantic that inspired Charles Darwin to write about his theory of evolution.
The Galopagos Islands
Glass can be made more resistant to breakage by heating it to just below the temperature at which it would begin to soften and then quenching it to stress its entire surface uniformly. Identify this process.
tempering
Africa is home to the world‘s heaviest insect—a beetle that can weigh up to 100 grams. Give the seven-letter name of this beetle who shares its name with a Biblical character.
Goliath
The alternative forms of a gene at the same locus on homologous chromosomes are called what?
alleles
The myofilaments of muscles consist primarily of two proteins. These two proteins are called:
Actin and Myosin
In biology, what is the word used to describe the appearance of an individual without regard to its hereditary constitution?
phenotype
The chromosomes responsible for characteristics other than sex are known by what term?
autosome
Another name for the water cycle?
Hydrologic Cycle
Where are red blood cells produced?
Within bone marrow
Define phosphate
a salt or ester of phosphoric acid
What is the production of red blood cels called?
Erythropoiesis
What is it called when the hanging wall of a fault moves upward while the foot wall of a fault moves downward?
reverse fault
What is the fraction of Earth’s atmospheric mass to the planet’s mass?
1/1,000,000
one millionth
How many shells does a Brachiopod have?
Two
What insect consumes book bindings, carpets, hair, and paper?
Silverfish (Fishmoth)
What is the capacity to do work?
Energy
This animal was known for its large flock size and long migrations in Northern America. It was hunted into extinction by 1914. What was this animal?
Passenger pigeon
Who discovered the laws of planetary movement?
Johannes Kepler
- Kepler’s Laws
1) The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
2) A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.
3) The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.
Who discovered anaerobiosis?
Louis Pasteur
Who was pasteurization named after?
Louis Pasteur
The theory that the planets revolve around the sun is named after whom?
Copernicus
Who wrote Elements, a textbook of geometry?
Euclid
Difference between transcription and translation?
transcription- DNA to RNA
translation- RNA to protein
