STAAR Biology Vocabulary

Nucleic Acid?

• Genetic Material known as DNA

• A layer of fat

• Creates growth and repairs cells

• Moves things out of a cell

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What is a characteristic of active transport?

• Not using energy

• Using energy

• Not breaking down

• Building protein

What is an example of a lipid?

• Sugar in water

• Salt in water

• A rock sitting on a table

• Cholesterol (fat)

What is the process during which a cell takes in a substance by surrounding it with the cell membrane?

• Active Transport

• Endocytosis

• Exocytosis

• Passive Transport

When a cell does the exocytosis process, it uses the membrane to...

• Take in substances in to the cell.

• Release substances outside of the cell.

• Stay balanced and healthy.

• Maintain PH levels

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Adaptations that result from natural selection are expected to increase the fitness of an organism. In terms of natural selection, what is fitness?

• being able to escape from predators

• being among the strongest organisms in a population

• being able to survive, find a mate, and produce offspring

• being able to survive long enough to reach an adult age

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What phase is this cell in?

• Cytokinesis

• Mitosis

• Prophase

• Metaphase

What phase is this cell in?

• Mitosis

• Cytokinesis

• Prophase

• Telophase

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In mitosis, the two resulting cells are

• different from the starting cell and identical to each other.

• different from the starting cell and different from each other.

• identical to the starting cell and different from each other.

• identical to the starting cell and identical to each other.

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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa

• red hair

• heterozygous genes

• mutated DNA

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