Vocab
Themes of Biology
Scientific Process
Misc.
Problems in the real world
100
The basic unit of heredity
What is a gene?
100
The process in which organisms make more of themselves
What is reproduction?
100
The expected outcome to a test
What is a prediction?
100
A virus that destroys the immune system
What is HIV
100
The replacement of a defective gene with a good gene
What is gene therapy?
200
The passing of traits from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
200
The sum of all chemical reactions carried out in an organism
What is metabolism?
200
The factor that is changed in an experiment
What is an independent variable?
200
In how long the rainforest might be gone
What is 30 years
200
A disease characterized by a growth in cells
What is cancer?
300
The process in which organisms with favorable traits survive
What is natural selection?
300
Change in the inherited characteristics of species over generations
What is evolution?
300
The act of noting or perceiving objects using senses
What is observing?
300
One of the many bird species that might become extinct if the rainforest disappears
What is a Scarlet Macaw
400
The complete genetic material contained in an individual
What is genome?
400
Dependance of one organism on another to survive
What is interdependence?
400
A procedure to test a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
400
The _______'s numbers have been reduced by chytrid infections
What is the Pacific Tree Frog?
500
A relative measure of the hydrogen ion concentration within a solution
What is pH?
500
Maintenance of an organism despite external conditions
What is homeostasis?
500
The group in an experiment that receives experimental treatment
What is an experimental group?
500
The president that started the "War on Cancer"
Who is Richard Nixon?
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