welcome to sports challenge! 8 th grade first semester review

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8th grade first semester review

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The passing of traits from parents to offspring100What is heredity?

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Gregor Mendel200Who was the father of modern genetics?




Self pollinating300What do you call a plant that contains both male and female

parts?




meiosis400What copying process produces sex cells?




Asexual reproduction500What is when only one parent cell is needed for reproduction?




nucleotides100What are the subunits of DNA?

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Double helix200What is the shape of DNA?




Adenine300What is the nucleotide base that always bonds to thymine?




Protein400What does DNA tell how to make?




Transfer molecules500What takes amino acids to the ribosome when DNA is fed

through three bases at a time?




kingdom100What is the largest level of classification?

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Carolus linnaeus200Who founded modern taxonomy?




Genus species300What makes up a scientific name?




archaebacteria400What kingdom has the oldest organisms?




Archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia500What are the six kingdoms?




Abiotic100What are nonliving factors in an environment?

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Biome200What is a geographical area characterized by certain types of plant and animal communities?




Coniferous forest or Taiga300What is a biome containing mostly evergreen trees ?




Tropical Rainforest400What is the biome that has the most diversity of living organisms?




Littoral zone500What is the zone closest to the edge of land in a freshwater

ecosystem?




Tundra100What is the biome characterized by permafrost , little precipitation,

and few or no trees ?

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Three nucleotide bases200How many nucleotide bases code for one amino acid?




Substitution, insertion, and deletion300What are the three types of mutations?




Amino acids400What is protein made of?




XY500What are the sex chromosomes of a human male?




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How many chromosomes are in a normal human cell? How many chromosomes are in a sex cell? And where do they come from?

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welcome to sports challenge! 8 th grade first semester review

Documents

semester review slide

shape of dna

subunits of dna

sports challenge

modern taxonomy

oldest organisms

certain types of plant

father of modern genetics