The use of scientific investigation and reasoning to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
100
An organelle found in all organisms
What is a ribosome
100
The different forms of a gene
What is an Allele
100
Disappearance of a species from all parts of its geographical range
What is extinction
100
Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities
What is a biome
200
The variable you change. What you are testing (goes on the x-axis of a graph.)
What is an independent variable?
200
A membrane bound sack that contains materials involved in transport of the cell
What is a vesicle
200
When both alleles of a gene are present in the phenotype
What is Codominance
200
The best scientific explanation for both the unity and diversity of life; proposed by Charles Darwin
What is the Theory of Evolution
200
Consumer; organism that obtains energy from food it consumes
What is a heterotroph
300
An estimate based on information or experience
What is a prediction
300
A system within the cell that involves the Nucleus, endoplasmic reticulam, the golgi apparatus, lysosomes, vesicles, and the cell membrane.
What is the endomembrane system
300
Father of genetics
Who is Gregor mendel
300
Formation of new species
What is speciation
300
steps in a food chain or food web
What is a trophic level
400
Sally wants to test the effect of music on plants. What is her independent variable?
What is the type of music sally uses?
400
A cell that contains a nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
What is a Eukaryote
400
Phase in mitosis where the chromatin condenses into chromosomes
What is prophase
400
Structures that have the different mature forms in different organisms but develop from the same embryonic tissue
What are homologous structures
400
Conversion of nitrates into nitrogen gas
What is denitrification
500
Cory wants to test how the growth of plants in different types of light. What could his control be?
What is the type of soil (amount of water and type of plant.)
500
This is the first person to see cells in a microscope
Who is Robert Hooke
500
If purple flowers are dominant and white flowers are recessive, what is the percentage of their being a dominant flower in the f2 generation?
What is 0%
500
a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms
What is a cladogram
500
Process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another