Runs in the Family
A segment of DNA that serves as the functional unit of inheritance.
What is a gene?
The part of a plant that absorbs nutrients and water from soil.
What are roots?
The system in the body that facilitates gas exchange between the body and the environment.
What is the respiratory system?
Bacteria that break down large chemicals in dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondria?
The process in which organisms with favourable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The green pigment found in plant cells that helps capture sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
Bundles of fibres that send electrical impulses throughout the body.
What are nerves?
Substances that can be used to kill/inhibit growth of bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
Plant cells have this structure for support that animal cells lack.
What is the cell wall?
A diagram used to predict all possible offspring genotypes or phenotypes from a genetic cross.
What is a punnett square?
These tiny openings are found on the surface of leaves to regulate gas exchange and water loss.
What are stomata?
Daily Double! The bumpy finger-like structures that cover the inner surface of the small intestines to increase surface area for absorption of nutrients.
What are villi or microvilli?
These viruses infect bacteria.
What are bacteriophages?
This organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins for transport.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
The process where different species evolve to become similar due to similar environments.
What is convergent evolution?
This plant tissue moves water and minerals upward from the roots to the leaves and is made of dead cells.
What is xylem?
Blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart.
What are veins?
The outer wall that is present in all Viruses and some bacteria.
What is a capsule?
This will happen to a cell when it is placed in a hypotonic solution.
What is swelling or lysis? (volume increases)
Due to life in dark caves, cave tetras, a species of fish, evolved to lose this structure.
What are eyes? (or pigmentation)
The important process a plant can no longer do when it is placed in sunlight but is losing water faster than it can take it in through its roots from surrounding soil.
What is photosynthesis?
The wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive system.
What is peristalsis?
Tiny tail-like hairs on bacteria that are used to move around.
What are flagella?
This essential process releases energy by breaking down glucose in the mitochondria.
What is cellular respiration?