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What is the process of converting nitrogen into usable forms by bacteria and lightning is?
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Nitrogen fixation
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Infectious disease is caused by?
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Pathogens
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The product of translation is?
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Protein and amino acids
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Shat occurs after a fire
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Secondary succession
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A ribose sugar, phosphate group and a base together form a.
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Nucleotide
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What is the climax community for our area'
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Beach, maple,oak trees
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What are the taxa groups in order.
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Domain,kingdom,phylum,Class,order,family,genus, species
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Which system delivers nutrients to our cells
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Circulatory system
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Where does translation occur
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Rinosomes
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What replaces thymine in RNA molecule
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Uracil
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How a trait appears is called
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Phenotype
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Structures with similar patterns, like the forearms of mammals are called...
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Homologous
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When the environment is selecting for two extremes of a polygenic trait, it is disruptive. What is it called when it is selecting for just one extreme
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Directional
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Which molecule controls chemical reactions, builds,cell parts, and helps determine what you look like
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Protein
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What is the driving force behind evolution
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Natural selection
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Evolution that results when species become more similar due it simiar environmental pressures is called
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Convergent
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Stuctures with similar functions are Called
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Analogous
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Who is Gregor mendel
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The father of genetics
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Which type of inheritance pattern produces a third phenotype which is a blending of both alleles
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Incomplete
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Evolution that results when species become more similar due to similar environmental pressures is
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Convergent
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Which type of inheritance shows a wide range of phenotypes?
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Polygenic
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What biome do we live in?
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Temperate
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What do u call the series of paired questions used to classify an organism
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Dictomous key
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What is an example if comparative anatomy
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Dissection of a rat
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Infecionois diseases are caused by
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Pathogens
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What is a carrier
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Heterozygous for a receive disease
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What is mutation
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Changes in the DNA
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What is the job of proteins
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Building and repairing cells
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What do antibiotics kill
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Bactia
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What is geographic isolation
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Two populations are separated by geographic barriers
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What is natural selection
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Survival and reproduction of organisms that are best adapted to the enviornment
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What is cancer
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Uncontroled cell division caused by changes in DNA
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What is point shift mutation
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There is a substitution in a single base pair
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What is frame shift mutation
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There has been a deletion or insertion
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Why are invasions species bad
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They have no competition or preditors
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In the carbon cycle which process Converts co2 into sugar
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Photosynthesis
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Which process converts sugar into co2
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Respiration
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What is binomeal nominclature
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A two name naming system that includes genus And the specific epithet
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Leg bones in snakes, Pelvis in whales and rail bone in humans are examples of
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Vestigial structures
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What is a producer
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Autotroph
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What is a karyotype
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A droid set of chromosomes arranged in pairs by decreasing size
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What is a monosomy
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When one chromosome is missing
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What is trisomy
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One extra chromosome
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Who developed our current method of naming systems
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Carlous linaeous
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What two things provide genetic variety for Evolution
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Mutations and sexual reproduction
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What is a codon
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A sequence of three nitrogen bases on MRNA Strand
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Which biome has little rainfall
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Desert, tundras, and grasslands
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What is a test cross used for
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To determine If something is a genotype If homozygous dominant or heterozygous
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What is infectious disease
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Caused by pathogen
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DNA nucleotide is composed of
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Phosphate, Deoxyribose, and Nitrogen base
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