Basics of Biology
Scientific Method
Organic Compounds
Cell Structures
Cell Transport
100
This theme in biology explains how organisms' characteristics change over time
What is evolution?
100
Something we detect with our senses
What is observation?
100
An organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that supply a source of quick energy
What is carbohydrate?
100
Made up of cytosol and is the material inside the plasma membrane
What is cytoplasm?
100
Special proteins that are located in the membrane
What are transport or membrane-bound proteins?
200
One characteristic of life is that organisms produce offspring
What is reproduce or reproduction?
200
Variable in a scientific experiment that is being affected by another variable
What is the dependent variable?
200
These small molecules are the building blocks of proteins
What is amino acid?
200
Contains DNA, or the genetic material, of the cell
What is nucleus?
200
Substances cross the cell membrane without the cell providing energy
What is passive transport?
300
This characteristic of living things suggests organisms must keep internal conditions stable
What is homeostasis?
300
This needs to be logical, based on scientific knowledge, and testable
What is a hypothesis?
300
Examples of these types of compounds include fats and oils
What is lipid?
300
Sack filled with water that contains inorganic and organic molecules
What is vacuole?
300
Cell membranes only allow some molecules to pass through and this characteristic is described as this
What is semipermeable?
400
These are the most basic unit of life
What is the cell?
400
This variable would be graphed on the x-axis and is the variable that we choose or change
What is the independent variable?
400
Lipids include phospholipids, steroids, and these
What is triglycerides?
400
Found in the cytoplasm and on the rough endoplasmic reticuclum, responsible for the production of proteins
What is ribosome?
400
The cell membrane is described a bilayer, one layer that loves water and another end that avoids water, also called this
What is hydrophobic?
500
The passing on of genetic information is best characterized as this unifying theme in biology
What is information transfer?
500
These are important on every graph and table and should show a relationship between variables
What is a title?
500
All organic compounds are based in this critical element
What is carbon?
500
These types of cells do not have a nucleus; but DNA that lies in a nucleoid region within the cytoplasm
What is prokaryotic cell?
500
A measurement of how much the concentration of a substance changes across a distance
What is concentration gradient?
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