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Honors Freshman Science
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When the heterozygote has a phenotype intermediate between those of its two parents
navigation
mitosis
incomplete dominance
photoperiodism
2. A gene carried on the Y chromosome
holandric
stamen
temperate forest
hormone
3. Energy from food passing from one organism to the next in a sequence
glycolipid
food chain
mRNA
microspore
4. Provides food for the developing embryo in a land egg
meiosis 2
yoke sac
tRNA
embryo
5. A fatty acid that contains the maximum possible number of hydrogens
cytoplasm
growth from cell division
self fertilization
saturated fatty acid
6. An actively cooperating group of individuals belonging to the same species and often closely related
pseudopod
posterior pituitary
society
monogamy
7. Covalently linking monomers
consumption overpopulation
learning
population dynamics
condensation reaction
8. Each gene is present in two copies & when gametes are formed each gamete gets only one of the two factors
Law of Segregation
temperate woodland
hydrolysis reaction
spherical
9. Eggs and sperm combine
telophase
glycolipid
cross fertilization
society
10. Daily & 24 hour cycles of activity
ribosome
clumped dispersion
steroid
circadian rhythms
11. Makes up the cytoskeleton
megasporocyte
bioaccumulation
cell membrane
microtubule
12. The concentration of water is lower than in the other area
triaclyglycerol molecule
social behavior
cross fertilization
hypotonic
13. A single cell made from the union of two gametes
zygote
organismic model
greenhouse effect
tropical rainforest
14. Flowering plant
individualistic model
gross primary productivity
angiosperm
microtubule
15. Halfway between saturated and unsaturated
antiparallel
gene poll
cellulose
paritally hydrogenated
16. The stuff in between the granum
contact inhibition
stroma
external fertilization
polypetide
17. Checks for errors and takes of RNA primer
nucleolus
migration
slash and burn agriculture
DNA polymerase 1
18. Plant growth response that is dependent on the direction of stimulus
Okazaki fragment
ecology
community
tropic response
19. On the side where the 3' carbon is
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20. The major carrier of genetic information in eukaryotes & found in the cell nucleus
secondary growth
chromosome
ribosome
K selection populations
21. Towards the stimulus
food web
learned behavior
positive tropic response
epistasis
22. The study of how living organisms and the physical environment interact in an immense and complcated web of relationships & the broadest field of biology
nitrogen cycle
auxin
water vacuole
ecology
23. Moving molecules into a cell
endocytosis
succession
pyramid of biomass
stroma
24. A disaccharide made from glucose and fructose & table sugar
sucrose
energy flow
dynamic equilibrium
niche
25. One dominant and one recessive
thigmotropism
heterozygous
negative tropic response
pinocytosis
26. The enzyme that controls the cell cycle & is destroyed during mitosis
viviporous
cyclin
Punnett square
polymer
27. The time inbetween meiosis 1 and 2
Thomas Malthus
interkinesis
exploitation competition
start codon
28. The site of photosynthesis
allopatric speciation
pinocytosis
diaphragm
chloroplast
29. Used for long term energy storage & cell membranes & padding and insulation & and steroids & soluble in nonpolar solvents and relatively insoluble in water
hormone
antrhopomorphic
lipid
ovary
30. Choosing certain trains and breeding only individuals that axhibited the desired traits
Darwin
artificial selection
endocytosis
telophase
31. The end of a lineage
centromere
environmental science
RU-486
extinction
32. Competition among population of different species
ecosystem management
cross fertilization
facilitated diffusion
interspecific competition
33. The DNA information being transferred to mRNA
transcription
decomposers
spirillum
active transport
34. The buildup of a toxin in an organism's body
function group
bioaccumulation
trophic level
ester linkage
35. The empty space in the ER tubes
ER lumen
facilitated diffusion
condensation reaction
controlled burning
36. What something does and how it does it
biomass
natural selection
behavior
hermaphrodism
37. Cells don't produce new cytoplasm to make the cell bigger & they produce an excess of protons which soften the cell walls so that the water vacuole fills up and makes the cell bigger
acid growth hypothesis of elongation
permease
oviduct
prophase
38. Growth response to gravity & positive in stem & negative in roots
imprinting
gravitropism
thigmotropism
biological organization
39. Found out that the hormone was being produced in the tip
internal fertilization
genetic code
Darwin
K selection populations
40. The change in allelic frequencies of two or more populations over time & the interdependent evolution of two or more interacting species
kinetechore
3' end
coevolution
ecotone
41. A mating system in which a male mates with only one female during a breeding season
allele frequency
monogamy
equilibrium
RNA primer
42. When a population's allele and genotype frequencies don't change from generation to generation
type 1 survivorship curve
Mullerian mimicry
antrhopomorphic
genetic equilibrium
43. Promotes cell eleongation & cell division & and seed growth
intrasexual selection
gibberellin
gravitropism
seminiferous tubules
44. Aka contest competition & certain dominant individuals get a good supply of the limited resources while the other less dominant organisms in the population don't
follicle
interference competition
primary structure
temperate woodland
45. The accelerating population growth rate that occurs when optimal conditions allow a constant per capita growth rate
microsporocyte
endocytosis
endosymbiotic theory
exponential population growth
46. Figured out that the hormone that made plants bend was on the opposite side from the light
pinocytosis
abiogenesis
diaphragm
Boysen-Jensen
47. When females select their mates on the basis of some physical trait or some resource offered by the winning suitor
intersexual selection
passive transport
behavior
osmotic pressure
48. CAT
the signal to start bringing amino acids
anticodon
condom
enzyme
49. Has cones
gymnosperm
RU-486
glycogen
biome
50. Stores water in plants
viviporous
ecosystem management
parthenogenesis
water vacuole