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Bio Keystone Key Vocabulary2

The document is a list of key vocabulary and concepts in biology that students often struggle with, focusing on terms related to genetics, ecology, and cellular processes. It includes definitions and comparisons of various biological terms, such as abiotic vs biotic, aerobic vs anaerobic, and mitosis vs meiosis. The list aims to assist students in understanding critical concepts necessary for their studies.

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Bio Keystone Key Vocabulary2

The document is a list of key vocabulary and concepts in biology that students often struggle with, focusing on terms related to genetics, ecology, and cellular processes. It includes definitions and comparisons of various biological terms, such as abiotic vs biotic, aerobic vs anaerobic, and mitosis vs meiosis. The list aims to assist students in understanding critical concepts necessary for their studies.

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BIO KEYSTONE KEY VOCABULARY 24.

Isolation and speciation

This is designed to be list of the vocab and concepts 25. Limiting factor
that students struggle with the most. Many key words
are not included because students have not traditionally 26. Lipids (CH2)
had problems with them… for example nucleus and
27. Mitosis vs meiosis
chromosome are critical, but not on the list.

1. Abiotic vs biotic 28. Nondisjunction

2. Aerobic vs anaerobic 29. Nonsense mutation

3. Allele 30. Nucleotide and nucleic acids

4. ATP 31. Observation vs inference vs hypothesis vs

5. Carbohydrates (CH20) conclusion vs theory vs law

6. Cellular respiration 32. Osmosis

7. Codominace vs incomplete dominance 33. Peptide

8. Codons (reading a codon chart!) 34. Phospholipid (and bilayer membranes)

9. Concentration gradient 35. Polygenic trait

10. Crossing over 36. Polymers and monomers

11. DNA replication 37. Producer vs consumer

12. Endemic vs invasive species 38. Proteins (N-C-C)

13. Endocytosis vs. exocytosis 39. Selectively permeable

14. Enzymes and catalysts 40. Semiconservative replication

15. Eukaryote vs prokaryote 41. Sex linked vs sex influenced trait

16. Food chain vs food web 42. Succession or successional stages

17. Frame shift mutation 43. Symbiosis or symbiotic relationship - parasitism

18. Gametes and germ cells vs. commensalism vs. mutualism

19. Gene expression or expressed 44. Transcription vs translation

20. Genotype vs phenotype 45. Trophic levels and the 10% rule

21. Homeostasis 46. Vestigial structure

22. Homologous structures vs analogous structures

23. Hypertonic vs. Hypotonic

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