Scientific Method and the Study of Life
Cell Biology
Cellular Energies
Cell Reproduction
Heredity and Molecular Genetics
100
The science of life.
What is Biology.
100
Consists of organic molecules that store energy in their chemical bonds.
What is Food.
100
A disease that occurs when the cell cycle is no longer regulated.
What is cancer.
100
Coiled structures made of DNA and proteins.
What is a chromosome.
100
Consists of tiny grains that are the male gametes of plants.
What is pollen.
200
Nucleic acid that consists of two polynucleotide chains.
What is DNA.
200
The ability to do work.
What is Energy.
200
A mass of abnormal cells.
What is a tumor.
200
The organized units of the DNA of a chromosome, encoded with genetic instructions for making proteins.
What is a gene.
200
The science of heredity.
What is genetics.
300
A special type of investigation. Performed under controlled conditions, usually in a laboratory.
What is an experiment.
300
A structure in the cytoplasm that is surrounded by a membrane and contains DNA.
What is the nucleus.
300
A repeating series of events that include growth, DNA synthesis and cell division.
What is the cell cycle.
300
Spindle fibers attach to the centromere of each pair of sister chromatids.
What is Metaphase.
300
The different versions of genes for a characteristic.
What is an allele.
400
The shape of DNA strands.
What is a double helix.
400
A structure within the cytoplasm that performs a specific job in the cell.
What is an organelle.
400
A multi-phase process in which the nucleus of the cell divides.
What is mitosis.
400
Sister chromatids seperate and the centromeres divide.
What is anaphase.
400
The expressed ___.
What is the dominant allele.
500
The statement that describes what always happens under certain conditions in nature.
What is the scientific law.
500
Tiny particles that may cause disease.
What is a virus.
500
The three phases in mitosis (G1, S and G2) are known as this.
What is interphase.
500
The chromosomes begin to uncoil and form chromatin.
What is telophase.
500
The unexpressed ___.
What is recessive allele.
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