Scientific Method and the Study of Life
Cell Biology
Cellular Energies
Cell Reproduction
Heredity and Molecular Genetics
100
A possible answer to a scientific question.
What is Hypothesis?
100
The basic units and structures of living things.
What is a cell?
100
The process in which one cell divides to form two new cells.
What is cell division?
100
The splitting of the cytoplasm to form daughter cells when a cell divides.
What is cytokinesis?
100
The science of heredity.
What is genetics?
200
A broad explanation for events that is widely accepted as true.
What is a Scientific Theory?
200
Structures in the cytoplasm where proteins are made.
What are ribosomes?
200
The process in which cells divide.
What is binary fission?
200
The coiled structure made of DNA and proteins containing sister chromatids that is the form the genetic material of a cell goes through cell division.
What is a chromosome?
200
A change in the bases of DNA/RNA.
What is mutation?
300
The process by which living things give rise to offspring.
What is reproduction?
300
Cells that contain a nucleus.
What are eukaryotic cells?
300
The repeating series of events that include growth, DNA synthesis, and cell division.
What is the cell cycle?
300
The region of sister chromatids where they are joined together.
What is a centromere?
300
Something that causes mutation.
What is a mutagen?
400
Organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
What is population?
400
The type of cell that has a chloroplast.
What is a plant cell?
400
A multi-phase process in which the nucleus of the cell divides.
What is mitosis?
400
The third phase of mitosis during which sister chromatids separate and move to opposite poles of the cell.
What is Anaphase?
400
The region of DNA containing genes that code for proteins with a particular function.
What is an operon?
500
The part of earth where all life exists, including all the land, water, and air where living things can be found.
What is a biosphere?
500
The scientist who discovered cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
500
This occurs when the cell cycle is no longer regulated.
What is cancer?
500
A pair of chromosomes that have the same size and shape and contain the same genes.
What are homologous chromosomes?
500
Proteins that regulate DNA transcription.
What is a Regulatory Protein?
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