Transcript DNA Jeopardy Review

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Who’s Who
Structure of
DNA
Transcription
Translation
Breaking
the Code
Dip in the MIX
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Final Jeopardy
Research Methods
Final Jeopardy
What are observing, experimenting,
and modeling?
3 basic methods used by
ecologists to study the living
world
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Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Used diffraction x-ray to
help better understand
DNA.
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Who are James Watson and
Francis Crick?
They discovered the
structure of DNA.
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What is double helix?
The name Watson and Crick
gave the structure of DNA.
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What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
DNA stands for this.
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What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The correct spelling of the
meaning of DNA.
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What is consumer?
Another name for a
heterotroph.
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What is a carnivore?
Name for an organism that
only eats meat.
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What are omnivores?
Animals that eat both
producers and consumers.
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What are decomposers?
Organisms that obtain
nutrients by breaking down
dead and decaying plants and
animals.
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What are carnivore &
consumer?
A lion stalks, kills, and then eats a
zebra. What 2 ecological terms
best describe the lion.
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What is the sun?
Main source of energy for
life.
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What is in ONE direction?
How energy flows through an
ecosystem.
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What is in a cycle?
How matter flows
through an ecosystem.
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What is a food chain?
A series of steps in
which organisms
transfer energy by
eating or being eaten
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What is a biomass pyramid?
Type of pyramid showing
the amount of living tissue
at each trophic level in an
ecosystem.
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What is the water cycle?
The repeated movement
of water between the
Earth’s surface and the
atmosphere.
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What is energy?
The one NOT recycled
in the biosphere:
water
carbon
nitrogen
energy
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What is nitrogen
fixation?
Process by which bacteria
convert nitrogen gas in the
air into ammonia.
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What is in the atmosphere,
as fossil fuels, in the ocean?
3 examples of how
carbon is stored in the
biosphere
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What are bacteria on a
legume(bean) plant?
Nitrogen fixation is
carried out by this with
this type of plant.
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What is the desert biome?
A cactus lives here.
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What is the marine
biome?
Coral reefs, whale, sharks,
and tropical fish are plentiful
here.
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What is the forest
biome?
Coniferous and deciduous,
huh?
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What is the grasslands
or savannah biome?
Winds passing gently
over long grasses and
treeless plains.
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What are marine,
freshwater, grassland,
tundra, desert, and forest?
The 6 biomes.
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What are nutrients?
Needed to carry out
essential life functions.
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What are the producers?
Always the largest portion
of a biomass pyramid.
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What is ecology?
Study of interactions
among organisms and their
surrounding physical
environment.
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What is photosyntesis?
Process autotrophs use to
create their own food.
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What is an algal bloom?
Can happen after a lake
receives a large input of a
limiting nutrient.