Biology Keystone Sweet 16 Vocabulary Practice Module 2

A process in nature in which organisms possessing certain inherited traits are better able to survive and reproduce compared to others of their species.

• Point Mutation

• Chromosomal Mutations

• Natural Selection

• Allele

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

Features of behaviors, morphology, or genetics that prevent mating or breeding between two different species.

• Symbiotic Relationship

• Isolating Mechanism

• Limiting Factor

• Natural Selection

Chemical, physical, or biological factor that limits the existence, growth, abundance, or distribution of an individual organism or a population.

• Chromosomes

• Allele Frequency

• Natural Selection

• Limiting Factor

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

A single piece of coiled DNA and associated proteins found in linear forms in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells and circular forms in the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells; contains genes that encode traits.

• Diploid Cell

• Point Mutation

• Allele

• Chromosomes

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A change in the structure of a chromosome.

• Cell Cycle

• Chromosomal Mutation

• Allele Frequency

• Isolating Mechanism

The series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication.

• Cell cycle

• Allele

• Chromosomes

• Limiting Factor

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

The measure of the relative frequency of an allele at a genetic locus in a population.

• Symbiotic Relationship

• Allele Frequency

• Natural Selection

• Chromosomal Mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS4-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

A variation of a gene's nucleotide sequence (an alternative form of a gene.)

• Diploid Cell

• Speciation

• Chromosome

• Allele

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

A single-base substitution causing the replacement of a single-based nucleotide with another nucleotide.

• Speciation

• Symbiotic Relationship

• Point Mutation

• Population Dynamics

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The study of short- and long-term changes in the number of individuals for a given population, as affected by birth, death, immigration, and emigration.

• Protein Synthesis

• Population Dynamics

• Point Mutation

• Speciation

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5