Cell Biology
The structure that controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The molecule that carries genetic instructions in all living things.
What is DNA?
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
The organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
Single-celled organisms without a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
The site of protein synthesis in all cells.
What are ribosomes?
Different versions of a gene that produce variations in a trait.
What are alleles?
The term for organisms that must eat other organisms for energy.
What are consumers / heterotrophs?
The organ responsible for gas exchange in humans.
What are the lungs?
Organisms that cause disease are called ___.
What are pathogens?
The process by which cells release energy from glucose in the presence of oxygen.
What is cellular respiration?
The type of cell division that produces four genetically unique haploid cells.
What is meiosis?
The pathway of energy transfer through feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
The system that carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste products.
What is the circulatory system?
A weakened or inactive form of a pathogen used to trigger immunity.
What is a vaccine?
During this stage of mitosis, chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.
What is metaphase?
The genetic makeup of an organism (its combination of alleles).
What is genotype?
The process by which carbon moves between the atmosphere, organisms, and Earth.
What is the carbon cycle?
The functional unit of the kidney that filters the blood.
What is the nephron?
The process of inserting a gene from one organism into another to give it a new trait.
What is genetic engineering?
The internal network of membranes that helps transport materials and synthesize lipids or proteins.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
A diagram used to predict the probability of inherited traits from parents.
What is a Punnett square?
The type of symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?)
The small structures in the small intestine that increase surface area for absorption.
What are villi?
The tool scientists use to cut DNA at specific sequences.
What is a restriction enzyme?