Core AP Biology concepts across all units: cell processes, genetics, evolution, ecology.
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- What is the primary function of mitochondria?
- To produce ATP through cellular respiration
- ____ are the organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plant cells.
- Chloroplasts
- What process produces four haploid cells from one diploid cell?
- Meiosis
- How many phases does mitosis have?
- Four (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase)
- ____ is the molecule that carries genetic information in most organisms.
- DNA
- What does ATP stand for?
- Adenosine triphosphate
- In the lac operon, what molecule acts as a repressor in the absence of lactose?
- A repressor protein (gene product of the i gene)
- What are the three main stages of cellular respiration?
- Glycolysis, citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle), electron transport chain
- ____ converts light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose.
- Photosynthesis
- What is the term for organisms that produce their own food using light energy?
- Autotrophs (or producers)
- Gregor Mendel's law of segregation states that alleles separate during which process?
- Meiosis
- In a heterozygous individual, the ____ allele is the one that is expressed in the phenotype.
- dominant
- What is the term for the physical expression of an organism's genes?
- Phenotype
- What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?
- Genotype
- Which nitrogen bases pair together in DNA?
- Adenine with thymine, guanine with cytosine (A-T, G-C)