cells Molecular genetics respiration ecology biotechnology labs cells

cells

Molecular genetics

respiration

ecology

biotechnology

labs

cells Molecular genetics respiration $100 $200 $300 Bio- labs $100 $200 $300 $300 $400 $400 $500 $500 ecology technology Double Jeopardy!

cells The small organelle that is responsible for protein synthesis. $100

cells What is a ribosome? Back $100

cells A selectively permeable boundary made up of lipids with polar heads and nonpolar tails $200

cells What is the phospholipid bilayer? Back $200

cells Fibrous and made of filaments, this type of cell can be classified as skeletal, cardiac, or smooth. $300

cells What is a muscle cell? Back $300

cells The functional unit of the nervous system. $400

cells What are neurons? Back $400

cells These cells cover body surfaces and lines body cavities. Functions include lining, protecting, and forming glands. $500

cells What are epithelial cells? Back $500

Molecular Genetics A single stranded version of a gene that acts as a blueprint for a protein. $100

Molecular Genetics What is m. RNA? Back $100

Molecular Genetics A group of 3 nitrogenous bases which code for an amino acid. $200

Molecular Genetics What is a codon? Back $200

Molecular Genetics This amino acid acts as a corepressor in the trp operon. $300

Molecular Genetics What is tryptophan? Back $300

Molecular Genetics An enzyme that adds new DNA nucleotides to a replicating DNA molecule $400

Molecular Genetics What is DNA polymerase III? Back $400

Molecular Genetics The replication fork moves along it in the 3' to 5' direction. $500

Molecular Genetics What is the leading strand? Back $500

respiration The organelle in which respiration occurs. $100

respiration What are mitochondria? Back $100

respiration The metabolic stage in which glucose is split into pyruvate. $200

respiration What is glycolysis? Back $200

respiration The metabolic process of respiration which generates the most ATP. $300

respiration What is oxidative phosphorylation? Back $300

respiration The molecule that is produced when oxygen is reduced by the electrons in the electron transport chain. $400

respiration What is H 20? Back $400

respiration The number of oxygen molecules required to produce 144 ATP molecules. $500

respiration What is 24? Back $500

ecology The natural world that surrounds an organism. $100

ecology What is an environment? Back $100

ecology A diagram that shows one set of feeding relationships between a producer and several consumers. $200

ecology What is a food chain? Back $200

ecology A sequence of community changes occurring as a result of a natural disaster, such as a forest fire $300

ecology What is secondary succession? Back $300

ecology The planned management of a natural area to prevent exploitation or destruction $400

ecology What is conservation? Back $400

ecology A United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838 -1914) $500

ecology Who was John Muir? Back $500

biotechnology Small, self-replicating circular DNA molecules. $100

biotechnology What are plasmids? Back $100

biotechnology Enzymes that cut DNA at a specific sequence of nucleotides $200

biotechnology What are restriction enzymes? Back $200

biotechnology The separation of nucleic acids or proteins, on the basis of their size and electrical charge, by measuring their rate of movement through an electrical field in a gel. $300

biotechnology What is electrophoresis? Back $300

biotechnology Stem cells with the potential to differentiate into most any type of cell. $400

biotechnology What are pluripotent cells? Back $400

biotechnology A carrier used to transfer a gene from one organism to another in genetic engineering (a virus, or recombinant plasmid) $500

biotechnology What is a cloning vector? Back $500

labs The final step of a good lab write-up. $100

labs What is a conclusion? Back $100

labs The independent and dependent variables in an “if, then” statement $200

labs What is a hypothesis? Back $200

labs an instrument that measures the proportions of light of different wavelengths absorbed and transmitted by a pigment solution. $300

labs What is a spectrometer? Back $300

labs The statistical test most frequently used to determine whether data obtained experimentally provide an approximation of the expected theoretical values. $400

labs What is a chi-square test? Back $400

labs A genus of small flies or “fruit flies” often used in experiments. $500

labs What are drosophilia? Back $500

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water

Cell division

Phylogeny

animal systems

plant systems

macromolecules

Animal Plant Macrosystems molecules water Cell division phylogeny $200 $200 $400 $400 $600 $600 $800 $800 $1000 $1000 Final Jeopardy!

water The type of bonding that allows water molecules to stick together. $200

water What is hydrogen bonding? Back $200

water The asymmetrical distribution of charge in a compound with a covalent bond. $400

water What is polarity? Back $400

water The quantity of heat a liquid must absorb for 1 gram of it to be converted into a gas $600

water What is heat of vaporization? Back $600

water A substance that consists of acid and base forms in a solution and that minimizes changes in p. H when extraneous acids or bases are added to the solution. $800

water What is a buffer? Back $800

water As liquid evaporates, the surface of the liquid that remains behind cools down: contributes to the stability of temperature in lakes and ponds. $1000

water What is evaporative cooling? Back $1000

Cell division A process which divides the nucleus of a cell, producing identical daughter cells $200

Cell division What is mitosis? Back $200

Cell division that produces four genetically variable haploid cells. $400

Cell division What is meiosis? Back $400

Cell division The protective structure at each end of a eukaryotic chromosome. $600

Cell division What is a telomere? Back $600

Cell division A stage of the cell life cycle that contains G 1, S and G 2 phases. $800

Cell division What is interphase? Back $800

Cell division Process by which homologous chromosomes swap genetic material during meiosis. $1000

Cell division What is crossing over? Back $1000

phylogeny The highest taxonomic category, above the kingdom level. Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. $200

phylogeny What is domain? Back $200

phylogeny Similarity between two species that is due to convergent evolution rather than to descent from a common ancestor with the same trait. $400

phylogeny What is an analogous structure? Back $400

phylogeny Homologous genes that are passed in a straight line from one generation to the next, but have ended up in different gene pools because of speciation. $600

phylogeny What are orthologous genes? Back $600

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree in which the lengths of the branches reflect the number of genetic changes that have taken place in a particular DNA or RNA sequence in the various lineages. $800

phylogeny What is a phylogram? Back $800

phylogeny Muscular, post-anal tail; Pharyngeal gill slits; Dorsal, hollow nerve cord; and a notochord. $1000

phylogeny What are characteristics of chordates? Back $1000

Animal structures A system which functions to distribute oxygen and nutrients needed by an organism. $200

Animal structures What is the circulatory system? Back $200

Animal structures a ring-shaped modified muscle that is able to open and close $400

Animal structures What is a sphincter? Back $400

Animal structures A system used to efficiently transfer heat and gases in many biological systems, involves exchanging a component quantity (like heat) between two fluids with opposing flows, thus creating a gradient. $600

Animal structures What is countercurrent exchange? Back $600

Animal structures The four types of animal tissue. $800

Animal structures What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue? Back $800

Animal structures Located in the right atrium in the posterior part of the heart, it maintains the heart's beating rhythm by self-exciting at regular intervals. $1000

Animal structures What is a pacemaker? Back $1000

Plant structures The structural component of a plant’s cell wall; a polysaccharide $200

Plant structures What is cellulose? Back $200

Plant structures A type of vascular tissue that transports water up from the roots. $400

Plant structures What is xylem? Back $400

Plant structures A tissue type that consists of epidermal cells, guard cells (surround the stomata), and various specialized surface cells (e. g. hair cells, stinging cells, and glandular cells). $600

Plant structures What is dermal tissue? Back $600

Plant structures The tips of roots and shoots in which growth occurs for young plant seedlings $800

Plant structures What are apical meristems? Back $800

Plant structures The lateral meristem that the secondary xylem and secondary phloem originate from. $1000

Plant structures What is the vascular cambium? Back $1000

macromolecules Large molecules composed of smaller molecules that are complex in their structure and function; most are polymers built from monomers $200