This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is the mitochondrion?
DNA stands for this.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Bacteria are this type of cell: they do not have a nucleus.
What is prokaryotic?
This is the living part of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
These organisms make their own food.
What are producers?
This part of the cell controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Traits are passed from parents to offspring through these.
What are genes?
Viruses need this to reproduce.
What is a host cell?
A group of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
Animals that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
Plant cells have this structure that gives them shape and support, but animal cells do not.
What is the cell wall?
A chart used to show possible gene combinations in offspring.
What is a Punnett square?
This helpful use of bacteria occurs in yogurt and cheese production.
What is fermentation?
This cycle moves water through the environment.
What is the water cycle?
This shows how energy moves through an ecosystem.
What is a food web or food chain?
This jelly-like substance fills the cell and holds the organelles.
What is cytoplasm?
This molecule carries the instructions to make proteins.
What is RNA?
This part of a virus attaches to the host cell.
What is the protein coat or surface proteins?
What breaks down dead things ?
What are decomposers ?
These organisms break down dead material and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This part of the cell contains the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
What is a double helix?
Antibiotics can treat these but not viruses.
What are bacterial infections?
This biome is cold and dry with permafrost soil.
What is the tundra?
In an energy pyramid, most energy is found at this level.
What is the producer level?