This is defined as "an organized group of related parts that interact to form a whole"
What is a system?
100
This has been defined as "using your own senses to study the world".
What is observation?
100
This tool provides an enlarged image of a VERY small object.
What is a microscope?
100
This is considered "the use and application of living things and biological processes"
What is biotechnology?
200
This is defined as "the place where all living things exist and all the places they are found on/in"
What is the biosphere?
200
This is "the environment that contains different species of organisms that interact with one another and with non-living things".
What is an ecosystem?
200
This is defined as "a proposed answer to a scientific question".
What is a hypothesis?
200
This is defined as "a segment of DNA that stores genetic information"
What is a gene?
200
The entire human DNA was sequenced by the turn of this year.
What is 2003?
300
This is defined as "the variety of life found throughout the biosphere"
What is biodiversity?
300
This is defined as "the ability of an organism to maintain a constant internal environment".
What is homeostasis?
300
This is "the condition that is manipulated, or changed, by a scientist in an experiment"
What is an independant variable?
300
This is defined as "the study and comparison of genomes (genetics) within a particular kind of organism or even comparing one kind of organism to another"
What is Genomics?
300
This form of biotechnology, is the analysis of a person's genes to identify genetic variations.
What is human genetic screening?
400
This is defined as "the chemical process which builds up and breaks down materials in all living organisms"
What is metabolism?
400
This is defined as "the change in living things over time"
What is evolution?
400
This is defined as "a proposed explanation to a wide range of observations and experimental results and is supported by a wide range of evidence"
What is a theory?
400
This is defined as "the study and manipulation (change) of DNA on a molecular level (very small level)"
What is Molecular Genetics?
400
This is the term defined as "organisms that have genes from more than one species, or have altered copies of their own genes"
What are transgenic organisms?
500
This is the molecule of genetic material found in all organisms.
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
500
This is defined as "an inherited trait that gives an organism an advantage and is passed on to future generations"
What is adaption?
500
This is what is "measured during an experiment; they are the experimental data"
What are dependent variables?
500
This kind of technology is used to study tissues inside living humans. It is commonly used in research and medicine.
What is Medical Imaging?
500
These were synthetically developed by humans less than 100 years ago. Nowadays, they can be found printed on the label of foods we eat.