Cells & Organelles
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This system includes your heart and blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
These are the basic units of heredity.
What are genes?
This term describes all the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
This process allows plants to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This cell structure controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This system allows your body to move using muscles.
What is the muscular system?
You inherit half your DNA from this parent.
What is each (mother and father)?
An animal that eats only plants is called this.
What is a herbivore?
This gas is taken in by animals and released by plants.
What is carbon dioxide?
These organelles are the “powerhouses” of the cell.
What are mitochondria?
The lungs are part of this system.
What is the respiratory system?
This scientist is known as the father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
All living things respond to these changes in their environment.
What are stimuli?
This part of a plant cell captures sunlight for photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
This body system defends against illness and infection.
What is the immune system?
A dominant allele is represented by this type of letter.
What is a capital letter?
A diagram that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem.
What is a food chain or food web?
The process of keeping a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
The nucleus contains this material that carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
This system controls body functions using electrical signals.
What is the nervous system?
If a person has one dominant and one recessive allele, they are called this.
What is a hybrid or heterozygous?
The place where an organism lives is called this.
What is a habitat?
These two groups make up the scientific name of an organism.
What are genus and species?
These small organelles help build proteins.
What are ribosomes?
The kidneys are part of this system.
What is the excretory (or urinary) system?
Traits passed from parents to offspring are called this.
What are inherited traits?
This term describes the role or job of an organism in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
This kingdom includes single-celled organisms without a nucleus.
What is bacteria (or monera/prokaryote)?
This is the jelly-like substance inside cells where organelles float.
What is cytoplasm?
This system produces hormones to regulate body processes.
What is the endocrine system?
The physical expression of a trait is called this.
What is a phenotype?
Too many organisms and not enough resources leads to this.
What is competition?
This is the highest level of biological classification.
What is domain?