The Life of Science
A possible explanation that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
A solution in which the concentration of solutes is lower relative to another solution
What is a Hypotonic solution?
Requiring oxygen.
What is aerobic?
The science of dealing with the description, identification, naming, and classifying of organisms.
What is Taxonomy?
The generation that occupies the largest portion of the life cycle.
What is the Dominate generation?
The process by which green plants use the energy of the sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
The site within the cell of protein synthesis.
What is the the Ribosome?
The first stage of cellular respiration where glucose is split in half.
What is Glycolysis?
The correct order for taxons of life from most general to most specific.
What is:
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
A flower with both stamens and carpels.
What is a perfect flower?
Data that is descriptive and doesn't involve numbers.
What is Qualitative data?
Quantitative data involves numbers.
The motion of cytoplasm in a cell that results in a coordinated movement of the cells contents.
What is Cytoplasmic streaming?
An organic compound that reflects specific light wavelengths producing color.
What is Pigment
According to a five-kingdom system, a spruce tree is part of this Kingdom.
What is Plantae?
A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid and multicellular haploid.
What is Alternation of generations?
Organisms that make their own energy.
What is an Autotroph?
Autotrophs are able to make their own food.
Collapse of a walled cell's cytoplasm due to a lack of water.
What is Plasmolysis?
The second stage of cellular respiration where glucose is split in half.
What is the Krebs cycle?
If a sample of food is dehydrated this condition for bacterial growth is removed.
What is water or moisture?
A tree with seed cones belongs to this group.
What is Gymnosperms or Coniferophyta?
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience
What is inference?
An observation is made using one of the 5 senses.
They are the digestive organelles that also serve to break up dead cell material.
What are Lysosomes?
There is a net gain of 2 ATP in ______ , 2 ATP in ______ ______, and 34 ATP in the ______ ______ ______.
What is the Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, and Electron Transport Chain.
An injected substance that stimulates the body's immune system to produce antibodies.
What is a vaccine?
Three ways in which pollen is transferred from the stamens of one flower to the carpels of another.
What are:
Wind, bees, beetles, birds, moths, or butterflies ?