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What is the type of vascular tissue that carries water and
phloem
minerals from a plant's roots and stem to the leaves?
In the Linnaean system of classification, the ___________
genus
comes between family and the species.
What system eliminates waste products from the body? excretory
What is the long bone of the upper leg? femur
The brain and spinal cord form the __________________
central
nervous system.
What is the transparent layer at the front of the eye? cornea
What are digestive wastes eliminated from the body
large intestine
through?
What is the condition of being resistant to an infectious
immunity
disease?
Who was the 17th century English physician known for his
William Harvey
study of the physiology of the circulatory system?
What is a simple-to-complex sequence of fossils predicted
geologic column
by evolution?
What are the organisms that feed primarily on plants? herbivores
What are the odd-toed ungulates (such as horses and
perissodactyls
rhinoceroses)?
What are the two main groups of fish? bony fish and cartilaginous fish
What is the large fin at the rear of a fish that serves as the
caudal fin
fish's propeller and rudder?
What are arthropods with eight legs and no antennae
arachnids
classified as?
What is the order of insects that includes grasshoppers,
orthoptera
crickets, mantises, and roaches?
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What are a group of invertebrates characterized by a mus-
mollusks
cular foot, a visceral hump, and a mantle?
What are soft-bodied invertebrates with stinging cells that
coelenterates
includes jellyfish, corals, and hydras?
What are two different forms of the same gene? alleles
What is the substance in a cell's nucleus that contains
the cell's "blueprints" and serves as the master control DNA
program of the cell?
What kind of structure does DNA have? double-helix
A gene that has more than two different forms, such as
the gene for the human ABO blood group, demonstrates multiple allele
______________ inheritance.
The type of inheritance in which a single trait is controlled
by many different pairs of genes is _________________ polygenic
inheritance.
What is a "typographical error" in an organisms's genetic
mutation
information?
What is the process by which an RNA copy of a DNA
transcription
template is made?
The three body regions of an insect are the head,
thorax
_________________, and abdomen.
What is the special type of cell division that results in cells
with half the normal number of chromosomes (such as meiosis
gametes)?
The four types of bases that can make up the "rungs"
of a DNA molecule are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine
______________.
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