Living/ Non Living Things
All living organisms are composed of
cells
What is a growth defect in the cells that makes the cells rapidly divide and not have regular control of cell division.
Cancer
Observation
Children tend to resemble their parents due to ?
Heredity
The variable that is measured
Dependent
Maintaining a stable environment
Homeostasis
1. In grain for cattle
2. source of gas for power plants.
An explanation that might be true- a statement that can be tested by additional observations or experiementation. Also, an educated guess
Hypothesis
The virus that causes AIDS is called?
HIV
The control and experimental groups are identical except for what? What type of variable?
Independent
The energy that drives metabolism in animals comes from?
Food
The process of replaceing a defective gene with a "healthy" gene is called?
gene therapy
Name the two types of groups in an experiment
Control and experimental
Name of the genetic disorder that is fatal in which the a thick, sticky mucus clogs passages in many of the body's organs.
Cystic Fibrosis
Other genetic disorders include Muscular Dystrophy and hemophilia.
True or False
The control and experimental groups are designed to be identical
False
The process by which organisms make more of their own kind is called?
Reproduction
The project helped with the sequencing of all human chromosomes
Human Genome Project
If the results of an experiment do not support the hypothesis that the experiment was designed to test, was the experiment a waste of time?
No.
The sum of all chemical reactions carried out in an organism is called?
Metabolism
A collection of hypotheses that have been tested many times is called?
A theory
A plant that is leaning towards the sun is an example of what characteristic of life?
Responding to environment
Give an example of how a gene mutation could be beneficial?
The mutation that causes Sickle Cell Anemia also makes people resistant to the deadly disease malaria
This is used to describe how acidid or basic a solution is that is being tested.
The study of interactions of living organisms with one another and with the nonliving part of thier enviromnent is called?
Ecology
In the mosquito repellent question where one arm is sprayed with repellent and the other is not, what was the dependent variable in that experiment?