The results of a study become more believable and reliable when this is increased.
What is Sample Size?
100
This substance, important for all life forms, is both polar and a good solvent.
What is Water?
100
Proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are examples of this type of nutrients, which are required in large quantities by the human body.
What are Macronutrients?
100
This important molecule is made up of 2 phosphate & sugar backbones, as well as the nitrogenous bases G,C,A, and T.
What is DNA?
100
These life forms have a common set of biological molecules, are composed of cells, can maintain homeostasis, can evolve, and require liquid water.
What are All Living Earth Organisms?
200
These are the two characteristics shared by all hypotheses.
What are Falsifiable and Testable?
200
This word, starting with the prefix "hydro-" refers to lipids' interactions with water.
What is Hydrophobic?
200
This type of fats are mostly found in plant oils, are liquid at room temperature, and contain double bonds which kink their fatty acid tails, preventing them from packing closely together.
What are Unsaturated fats?
200
These molecules are the basic units that join together to form a protein.
What are Amino Acids?
200
These are used when an experiment or study is too dangerous or unethical to perform on humans.
What are Model Systems?
300
While the experimental group receives treatment, this group receives the placebo or other "sham" treatment.
What is the Control (group)?
300
The electrons in a water molecule are pulled toward this part of the water molecule.
What is Oxygen?
300
This type of diabetes is mostly diagnosed in adulthood and is associated with obesity.
What is Type II Diabetes?
300
This type of cell lacks a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a Prokaryotic Cell (Prokaryote)?
300
This describes when neither the study participant nor the person administering the treatment knows whether the participant is part of the experimental or the control group.
What is Double Blind?
400
In an experiment where a scientist feeds different amounts of protein to dairy cows and measures the differences in their milk yields, this term describes the amount of milk produced by the cows.
What is the Dependent Variable?
400
This important element has the ability to bond with 4 other atoms; all life on Earth is based on this element.
What is Carbon?
400
This molecule is a steroid (type of lipid) that plays an important role in the the plasma membrane of cells.
What is Cholesterol?
400
This organelle, present in eukaryotic cells, uses high acidity to break down unwanted molecules (the cellular garbage disposal).
What is a Lysosome?
400
These biological macromolecules provide structural support and enzymatic activities for cells, and assist in cell movement and communication.
What are Proteins?
500
This phrase is used to describe when "results of a difference between groups is unlikely to be caused by chance".
What is Statistically Significant?
500
Testosterone and estrogen are examples of this type of lipid, which contains a four-carbon ring structure.
What is a Steroid?
500
The artificial process of hydrogenation produces this kind of fats.
What are Trans Fats?
500
This eukaryotic organelle sorts, processes, and packages proteins, acting as the "Post Office" of the cell.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
500
This principle illustrates that although the global temperature has risen while the number of pirates has fallen, these two variables may not have a causal relationship.