SCIENCE(FINAL EXAM) Flashcards
(30 cards)
Considered as the highest mountain above sea level.
Mt. Everest
Visible light having shortest wavelength and highest frequency
Violet
The vibrations on Earth’s surface that occur after a sudden release of energy
Earthquake
The highest and among the youngest mountain range in the world
The Himalayas
The strength of an earthquake perceived and felt by the people in a certain locality
Intensity
The bending of lights as it passes from one transparent subtance into another
Refraction
Scientist who obtained the value of the speed of light
James Bradley
Also known as diverging mirror and will always produce a virtual image
Convex mirror
It has the ability to diverge the light that passes through it
Concave Lens
A technique that uses three reference rays in order to locate the image
Ray Diagramming
The young herdsman who first discovered abour lodestones
Magnes
Male external sexual organs that delivers semen into vagina
Penis
A ductless reproductive gland that produces oocytes
Ovary
A sac like organ made of muscles and skin and it housses the testes
Scrotum
The mating position of frogs and toads
Amplexus
The process by which a sperm combines with an oocyte to produce a fertilized zygote
Fertilization
A group of three bases called codons
Messenger RNA
Clover-shaped with three exposed bases called anticodons
Transer RNA
The flow of genetic information from DNA to protein
Central Dogma
A process by which a DNA strand obtains a copy of itself
Replication
An alteration in the original DNA sequence that causes changes in the gene instruction
Mutation
A mutation inherited from a parent and is present in all cells throughout its lifetime
Hereditary Mutatiomn
Happens during recombination in which portions od chromosomes are switched
Inversion
Bones of babies at birth
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