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Autotrophs
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"Self-feeders", make their own food
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Heterotrophs
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"other-feeders", cannot make their own food
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Where does photosynthesis occur?
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In the chloroplasts
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The gas exchange part of a plant is called what?
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Stomata
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Thick fluid outside the chloroplasts
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stroma
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Chlorophyll is found inside what?
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The thylakoid
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What are the reactants of photosynthesis?
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Carbon Dioxide, water and light
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What are the products of photosynthesis?
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Glucose and oxygen
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Energized electrons are added to what to make sugar?
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Carbon Dioxide
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The stroma can be found where?
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Outside the chloroplasts
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What provides the energy required in photosynthesis?
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Sunlight
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Photosynthesis is composed of what two parts?
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The photo part (light reactions) and the synthesis part (Calvin cycle)
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What occurs during the photo part of photosynthesis?
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Light reactions convert solar energy to chemical energy
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What occurs during the synthesis part of photosynthesis?
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The Calvin cycle makes sugar from carbon dioxide
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The two parts of photosynthesis happen inside what?
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The Chloroplasts
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Light reaction phase of photosynthesis occurs inside what?
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Thykaloid membrane
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The Calvin cycle happens inside what part of the chloroplast?
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Stroma
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Chloroplasts are powered by what?
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The sun
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Chloroplasts convert solar energy into what?
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Chemical energy
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Sunlight is a type of energy called what?
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Radiation or electromagnetic energy
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The pigment that absorbs sunlight is found inside what?
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Thykaloids
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What are the 3 pigments of chloroplast?
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Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoids.
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Which pigment serves as a protective pigment?
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Carotenoids
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Which pigment is the most direct and critical?
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Chlorophyll a
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What color is chlorophyll a
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Blue-green
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What color is carotenoids?
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Orange
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Discrete packets of energy is called?
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Photons
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Photons are absorbed by what?
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Chlorophyll molecules
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Stacks of thykaloids are called?
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Granum
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Two types of photosystems cooperate in the light reaction, what are they?
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Water-splitting and NADPH-producing
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What connects the two photosystems?
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An electron transport chain
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What is produced in the Calvin cycle of photosynthesis?
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Glucose
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What is required for the Calvin cycle of photosynthesis?
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CO2, ATP and NADPH
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Exact copying of a cell is called what?
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Mitosis
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A human cell contains how many chromosomes?
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46 or 23 pairs
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Chromatin is a combination of what?
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DNA and protein molecules
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Chromosomes are made of?
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Chromatin
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Before a cell divides it duplicates all of its chromosomes resulting in two copies called?
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Sister chromatids
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The organized process the cell goes through is called the ?
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Cell cycle
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The cell cycle consists of what two distinct phases?
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Interphase and Mitotic phase
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Sister chromatids are joined together by?
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Centromeres
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What happens in the S phase?
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The copying of genetic material, or DNA
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What are the 4 phases of mitosis in order?
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1. Prophase
2.Metaphase 3. Anaphase 4. Telophase |
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Mitosis creates what type of cell?
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Diploid
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The mitotic spindle forms during what phase of mitosis?
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Prophase
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The sister chromatids line-up in what phase of mitosis?
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Metaphase
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The sister chromatids separate during what phase of mitosis?
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Anaphase
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Division of the cytoplasm is called?
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Cytokinesis
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In what phase of mitosis can we observe the cleavage furrow?
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Telophase
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Cytokinesis happens during what phase?
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Telophase
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Is cytokinesis the same in both animal and plant cells?
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No
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What forms during cytokinesis in plants?
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Cell plate
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A disease of the cell cycle is called?
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Cancer
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Sexual reproduction depends on what two things?
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Meiosis and fertilization
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Half the number of normal chromosomes is called?
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Haploid
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A typical human body cell is called a what?
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Somatic cell
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XX are the chromosomes of who?
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Females
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XY are the chromosomes of who?
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Males
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Orderly arrangement of cells is called a?
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Karyotype
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matching pairs of chromosomes are called what?
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Homologous chromosomes
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How many pairs of Autosomes do human have?
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22 pairs
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How many pairs of sex chromosomes do human cells have?
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1 pair
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Meiosis involves how many generations of division?
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2
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Crossing over occurs in what type of division?
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Meiosis
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All the differences of meiosis happen in what generation?
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Meiosis 1
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Crossing over occurs during what phase of meiosis?
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Prophase 1
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A cell that contains half of the genetic material can be called a what?
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Haploid cell
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What happens in nondisjunction?
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The members of a chromosome pair fail to separate during anaphase
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What is produced in nondisjunction?
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gametes with an incorrect number of chromosomes
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What can result from a gamete with an extra chromosome?
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Down syndrome
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chromosome 21 or trisomy 21 refers to what?
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Down syndrome
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Green pigment located inside the chloroplasts
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chlorophyll
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interconncected membrane sacs
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thylakoids
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interior of the thylakoids
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thylakoid space
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what happens when the chloroplasts split water
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it turns to hydrogen and oxygen
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Water-splitting happens during what phase of photosynthesis?
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the photo phase
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What 3 types of light can be produced from the chloroplast?
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Reflected, absorbed, transmitted
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The entire range of radiation is known as the ?
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Electromagnetic spectrum
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The entire range of radiation is known as the ?
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Electromagnetic spectrum
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What spectrum's of light work best for photosynthesis?
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Violet-blue and red
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What color light do carotenoids absorb?
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Violet and blue-green
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reaction-center complex can be found in where?
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A photosystem
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All body cells except the reproductive cells are called?
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Somatic cells
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the shortest part of the cell cycle is the ?
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Mitotic (M) phase
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The assembly of spindle mircotubules starts at ?
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The Centrosome
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A subcellular region containing material that functions throughout the cell cycle to organize the cells mirotubules
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centrosome
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Where and when does the mitotic spindle begin to form?
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Cytoplasm during prophase
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The two chromosomes composing a pair having the same length, centromere position and staining pattern are called?
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Homologous chromosomes
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cells with single chromosome sets are called?
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Haploid cells
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The nuclear envelope starts to disappear during what phase?
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Prophase
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The nuclear envelope reappears during what phase?
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Telophase
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located at the center of the centrosomes.
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centrioles
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