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 What are the Common Career Technical Core - Career Ready Practices? - Correct answer 1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee.  2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills.  3. Attend to personal health and financial well-being.  4. Communicate clearly, effectively and with reason.  5. Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions.  6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation.  7. Employ valid and reliable research strategies.  8. Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.  9. Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management.  10. Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals.  11. Use technology to enhance productivity.  12. Work productively in teams while using cultural/global competence.  What is the scientific method and what are its steps? - Correct answer The scientific method is a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.  identify the problem  ask questions  research the questions  create a hypothesis  conduct experiments  collect and analyze data  draw conclusions  share the results  What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)? - Correct answer Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a technique to make many copies of a specific DNA region in vitro (in a test tube rather than an organism).  Amplifies a target region quickly & cost effectively  What is used in PCR? - Correct answer PCR relies on a thermostable DNA polymerase, Taq polymerase, and requires DNA primers designed specifically for the DNA region of interest.  How is PCR done? - Correct answer  What are the applications of PCR? - Correct answer

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[Date]  What is the role of the mitochondria? - Correct answer  Where is DNA stored in a eukaryotic cell? - Correct answer  What is the difference between a eukaryotic and a prokaryotic cell? - Correct answer  What is the role of the Golgi apparatus? - Correct answer Consists of a stack of curved saccules that receives protein and also lipid-filled vesicles from the ER, packages, processes, and distributes them within the cell  What is the role of the centrosome? - Correct answer  What is the role of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum? - Correct answer  What is the role of the rough endoplasmic reticulum? - Correct answer  What is the function of the nucleus? - Correct answer  What is the role of the lysosome in a cell? - Correct answer  What is the role of the - Correct answer  What are the differences between a prokaryotic cell and a eukaryotic cell? - Correct answer  What are the differences between plant and animal cells? - Correct answer  What are the differences between DNA and RNA? - Correct answer  What is DNA? - Correct answer  What is DNA replication? - Correct answer  What is DNA polymerase? - Correct answer  What is translation and where does it occur? - Correct answer  What is transcription and where does it occur? - Correct answer  What is mRNA and what does it do? - Correct answer  What is the ETC (electron transport chain)? - Correct answer  What is diffusion? - Correct answer

[Date]  What is - Correct answer  What is mitosis? - Correct answer  What is the use of mitosis? - Correct answer  What are the steps of mitosis? - Correct answer  What is meiosis? - Correct answer  What is meiosis used for? - Correct answer  What are the steps of meiosis? - Correct answer  What is gene therapy? - Correct answer  What is gene therapy used for? - Correct answer  What is biotechnology? - Correct answer  What is genomics? - Correct answer  What is epigenetics? - Correct answer  What is genetics? - Correct answer  What is the purpose of a chromosome? - Correct answer  How many chromosomes do humans have? - Correct answer 46 (23 pairs)  What does it mean when an organism is diploid? - Correct answer  What does it mean when an organism is haploid? - Correct answer  What is selective breeding? - Correct answer  What is the law of natural selection? - Correct answer  Who were Watson and Crick and what did they do? - Correct answer  What are He-La cells? - Correct answer  What is adenine? - Correct answer  What is thymine? - Correct answer

[Date]  What is thymine replaced with in RNA? - Correct answer  What is guanine? - Correct answer  What is cytosine? - Correct answer  What is the backbone of DNA made of? - Correct answer  How do cells communicate? - Correct answer  What is protein synthesis? - Correct answer  How does protein synthesis work? - Correct answer  How does protein synthesis differ in prokaryote cells and eukaryote cells? - Correct answer  What is the Chi-square test? - Correct answer  What is the chi-square test used for? - Correct answer  What is molarity? - Correct answer  How do you find the molarity of a substance? - Correct answer  How do you convert from Celsius to Kelvin? - Correct answer K=C+  How do you convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius? - Correct answer C=5/9(F-32)  What is pH a measure of? - Correct answer  What is photosynthesis? - Correct answer  What is a plasmid vector? - Correct answer  What is the germ theory? Who proposed it? - Correct answer  What is the evolutionary theory? - Correct answer  What is taxonomy? - Correct answer the science of naming and classifying organisms  What is the taxanomic order? - Correct answer  What are the 3 states of matter? - Correct answer solids, liquids, and gases

[Date]  What are the 3 stages of cellular respiration? - Correct answer glycolysis, krebs cycle, electron transport chain  What are the differences between laws, theories, and facts? - Correct answer  True/False: electron configuration in atoms determines how a substance reacts and how much energy of it is involved in its reactions? - Correct answer True  What are the different types of chemical bonds? - Correct answer  True/False: changing from one state of matter to another involves a gain or loss of energy - Correct answer True  What are enzymes? - Correct answer  What are the differences between an element, a molecule, ion, and a compound? - Correct answer  What are groups on the periodic table? - Correct answer  What is homeostasis and why is it important? - Correct answer regulation and maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism.  it is important because without balance in the organism, it would not  What is asexual reproduction? - Correct answer  What is sexual reproduction? - Correct answer  What are the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction? - Correct answer  What is the central dogma of molecular biology and who discovered it? - Correct answer  What are Okazaki fragments? How are they welded together? - Correct answer  What is a biotic factor? - Correct answer  What is an abiotic factor? - Correct answer  What happens when - Correct answer  What are the factors that affect photosynthesis? - Correct answer temperature, light intensity, carbon dioxide levels, and the availability of water.

[Date]  What are the mechanisms of change that lead to adaptations in a species? - Correct answer Mutations, Natural selection,  How does genetic variation occur? - Correct answer Crossing over, jumping genes, duplication and deletion  What is peer review and why is it important? - Correct answer Peer review is when another scientist reviews your work for accuracy. It is important because it allows others in the field to assess a scientist's investigations and results.