Cell Central
This part of a cell contains the genetic material and controls the cell’s activities.
What is the nucleus?
This organ pumps blood around the human body.
What is the heart?
This is the general name for a microorganism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
This molecule carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
This term describes an organism that makes its own food and usually begins a food chain.
What is a producer?
This organelle is the main site of aerobic respiration.
What is the motochondria?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are the main site of gas exchange.
What are alveoli?
These molecules found on the surface of pathogens can trigger an immune response.
What are antigens?
These structures are made from long molecules of DNA and are found in the nucleus.
What are chromosomes?
This term describes all the organisms of one species living in the same area.
What is a population?
These tiny structures are where proteins are made.
What are ribosomes?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood around the body.
What is the left ventricle?
This process involves a white blood cell engulfing and digesting a pathogen.
What is phagocytosis?
This is a section of DNA that can code for a protein and influence a characteristic.
What is a gene?
Temperature, light intensity and pH are examples of this type of environmental factor.
What are abiotic factors?
This is the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane from a region of higher water concentration to lower water concentration
What is osmosis?
This blood vessel supplies oxygenated blood to the heart muscle itself.
What is the coronary artery?
These proteins bind specifically to antigens and help the immune system destroy pathogens.
What are antibodies
These are different versions of the same gene.
What are alleles?
This piece of equipment is used to sample organisms in a particular area, especially plants
What is a quadrat?
This process uses energy to move substances from a lower concentration to a higher concentration.
What is active transport?
This term describes the regulation of internal conditions such as body temperature and blood glucose.
What is homeostasis?
These cells remain in the body after an infection and allow a faster response if the same pathogen is encountered again.
What are memory cells?
This term describes the genetic combination of alleles an organism possesses, such as Bb or bb.
What is the genotype?
This term describes the variety of different species of living organisms within an ecosystem or area.
What is biodiversity?