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1. Includes all living and nonliving components of the Earth to support living things.
Kingdom Animalia
Cytosine
The nucleus
The biosphere
2. Is composed of an anterior and posterior lobe. The stalk of the lobe is connected to the hypothalamus. Antidiuretic Hormone (AH) is produced in the hypothalamus and stored in the posterior pituitary. Upon nervous stimulation from the hypothalamus - t
The habitat of an organism includes
The pituitary gland
Lymphocytes
Ionic bonds involve
3. Nonvascular plants such as mosses which lack tissue for conducting food or water.
Restriction enzymes
Protista
Bryophytes
Aves
4. An enzyme is unaffected by the reactions it catalyzes
The biosphere
Non-protein
Gregor Medel
So it can be used over and over again.
5. The physical place where a particular organism lives. It must include all the factors that will support its life and reproduction.
Internodal tissue
Epidermal tissue
Habitat
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
6. The lineage that led to the modern Homo Sapiens diverged from the lineage that led to the modern chimpanzee.
A prosthetic group
Non-protein
About five million years ago...
Isotonic Conditions
7. When the water concentration inside and outside the cell is equal - It is said to be in an...
Iisotonic state
Kingdom Animalia
Epidermal tissue
Parenchyma tissue
8. Are organic cofactors or coenzymes that are required by some enzymatic reactions.
Isotonic Conditions
DNA replication
Vitamins
Hemophilia
9. The solid mass of cells resulting from the cleavage of the ovum before the formation of a blastula.
Natality
Habituation
Morula
An enzyme
10. Is a protein - which is a polymer of amino acids. They generally have the suffix -ase- like lactase.
Population
An enzyme
Nematoda
A hydrogen bond
11. Contains multicellular photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms including gymnosperms and angiosperms.
An enzyme
Tundra
Catabolism
Kingdom Plantae
12. Covers and protects the leaf.
Free ribosomes
Cuticle
Lysis
Enzymes catalyze reactions
13. Becomes available for erosion as undersea sedimentary rocks are up-thrust by volcanic activity - erosion releases it from rocks into streams where it combines with oxygen to form phosphates in lakes that are then absorbed by plants - it is recycled t
Cerebrum
Will increase the reaction rate
Mesoderm
Phosphorous
14. It secretes saliva which enters the digestive tract and aids the digestive process.
Mesozoic era
The salivary gland
Prosthetic groups
Savanna
15. The trachea includes the windpipe or larynx in its upper portion - and the glottis - an opening that allows the gases to pass into the two branches known as the bronchi.
Anabolsim
Non-protein
Trachea
Gregor Medel
16. Where protein synthesis occurs. They float unattached in the cytoplasm. They contain RNA that is specific to their function in protein formation.
Anabolsim
Stem tissues
Free ribosomes
Prosthetic groups
17. An orienting response to light.
Non-protein
Meristem tissue
Angiosperms
Phototropism
18. Are surrounded by capillaries that allow for carbon dioxide to diffuse into the lungs and oxygen to diffuse out.
Bryophytes
Gregor Medel
Alveoli
Centrioles
19. Bacteria break ammonia into nitrites - then into nitrates that are usable by plants; volcanic activity produces ammonia and nitrates that enter the soil and can be absorbed by plants; lightning reacts with atmospheric nitrogen to form nitrates that a
Bronchi
The Nitrogen cycle
Precambrian period
Annelida
20. The bronchi lead to the two lungs where they branch out in all directions into smaller tubules known as bronchioles.
Ribonucleic acid
Carbon
B Cells
Bronchi
21. Niche
A species role in the food chain is part of its
The cell membrane (plasma membrane)
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Tundra
22. Are the monomers that form nucleic acids - containing a sugar - phosphate group - and a nitrogenous base.
Nucleotides
Protista
Kingdom Fungi
Carbon
23. Most fossils of Hominids are from continents other than...
The Hardy-Weinberg Law of Equilibrium
The evolution leading to Homo Sapiens...
North America
The primary role of DNA in the cell
24. The phyla of round worms.
Allopatric speciation
Gametocide
Nematoda
Carrying capacity
25. Contains many genes and is a structure comprised of linear DNA and associated proteins.
Cellulose - starch - lipid - and sugar molecules
Cellular Metabolism
Chromosome
Cerebrum
26. A type of innate behavior (instinct.) The FAP is a preprogrammed response to a particular stimulus (known as a releaser stimulus). FAP's include courtship behaviors and feeding of young. These are not learned behaviors - they are automatically perfor
Meristem tissue
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
Ectoderm tissue
Sudden appearance and disappearance of fossil species
27. The process whereby cells build molecules and store energy (in the form of covalent chemical bonds).
The cell membrane
Anabolsim
Balance
Restriction enzymes
28. Are formed when the plasma membrane of a cell encloses a molecule outside the membrane - then releases a membrane bound sack containing the desired molecule into the cytoplasm. This process allows the cell to absorb molecules that are larger in size
Photolysis is a reaction of photosynthesis where
Gametogenesis
Endocytic vesicles
Phototropism
29. Is the outermost layer of cells of the stem.
Epidermal tissue
Mitochondria
C ---OH
Aganatha
30. Plants and animals obtain usable nitrogen
Vascular bundles
Ribonucleic acid
Through nitrogen fixing bacteria and lighting
Pharynx
31. Is a social behavior of an organism that is beneficial to the group at the individual's expense.
Niche
As energy is transferred through trophic levels
Altruism
Kingdom Fungi
32. Veins in the leaf and are also distributed throughout the stem
Bronchi
A sudden change in the amount of extracellular fluid will be corrected by events following the release of substances from this organ.
The nucleus
Vascular bundles make up the
33. The total amount of genetic information available for a given species.
The salivary gland
Genome
Genetic screening
A lysosome
34. Biotic (living) factors such as population and food source - and abiotic (non-living) factors such as weather - temperature - soil features - sunlight).
The habitat of an organism includes
Ionic bonds involve
Mitochondria
Biogeochemical cycles
35. Is weaker than ionic - covalent - disulfide - or double bonds.
Phosphorous
The Cell Theory
Cnidaria
A hydrogen bond
36. Are cells involved in immunity and are produced in bone marrow as stem cells.
Lymphocytes
Cytosine
Early hominids...
Gymnosperms
37. Occurs when an individual learns not to respond to a particular stimulus - for instance when a stimulus is repeated many times without consequence.
Habituation
Altruism
The cuticle
Chordata
38. All store energy within their chemical bonds.
Gene Migration
Chromatin
Genome
Cellulose - starch - lipid - and sugar molecules
39. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh
Epidermal tissue
Niche
The pancreas
Circadian rhythms
40. Occurs when two populations are geographically isolated from each other. Over time this results in the production of two separate species.
Adenine
Allopatric speciation
Saprophytic
Hydrolysis
41. Consists of undifferentiated cells capable of quick growth and specialization. It is responsible for elongation of the stem.
Xylem tissue
The biosphere
A catalyst
Meristem tissue
42. Process in which elements - chemical compounds - and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another.
Silicon
Biogeochemical cycles
Ecotone
Simple fruits
43. Fossilized burrows from multicellular organisms begin to appear in the geological record approximately 700 million years ago during the Precambrian period. These multicellular animals had only soft parts and could not be fossilized.
Stem tissues
Hemophilia
Precambrian period
A catalyst
44. The individual we recognize as an adult fern.
Mature sporophyte
Free ribosomes
Phosphorous gas
Isotonic Conditions
45. Is a disease caused by lack of vitamin C in which the body is unable to build enough collagen (a major component of connective tissue).
Mitochondria
Centrioles
Will increase the reaction rate
Scurvy
46. Algae and Protozoa belong to the kingdom...
A prosthetic group
Blastula
Genetic maintenance
Protista
47. A suffix meaning 'to break apart.' O || ||
The habitat of an organism includes
Forebrain
Lysis
Chlorophyll
48. Is a kind of plain characterized by a warm climate - grassland - and seasonally dry climate conditions.
Savanna
parasitic
Did not evolve together
Phototropism
49. The vocal cords are found in the larynx.
Stem tissues
Precambrian period
Larynx
The Cambrian Period
50. Is the outermost of the three main layers of an embryo.
Bryophytes
Ectoderm tissue
Cuticle
Internodal tissue
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