The Science of Life
This type of science is known as "the study of life".
What is Biology?
The building block of life.
What is an atom?
The building blocks of protein
What are amino acids?
Organisms that eat living producers for food
What are consumer?
Only a plant cell has one
What is a cell wall?
This is a testable answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
A table of the chemical elements arranged in a specific order
What is the periodic table?
The characteristic of a lipid. Hint: water
What is hydrophobic?
The process when gases trap heat that would normally escape the earth
What is the greenhouse effect?
The largest organelle in a cell
What is the nucleus?
The idea that living things can form from non living things.
What is spontaneous generation?
How many protons are in oxygen?
What is 8?
A molecule with four fused carbon rings. A body builder might use.
What is a steroid?
The physical place a species lives
What is a habitat?
A sac that transports food or water in a cell
What is a vacuole or vesicle?
This scientist proved that microorganisms cannot spontaneously generate.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
An element that contains the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons
What is an isotope?
Makes a chemical reaction go faster
What is a catalyst?
A biome with an arctic climate. Very dry.
What is a tundra?
Makes up the plasma membrane
What is phospholipids?
The production and use of energy is called this.
What is metabolism?
3 qualities of water
What is cohesion, surface tension, adhesion, heat capacity, density of ice.
The reaction that breaks down a polysaccharide to a monosaccharide
When a species causes harm to a non-native area.
What is invasive species?
What is active transport?