Macromolecules
Characteristics of living things
Scientific Inquiry
Basic Biology
Vocabulary of biology
100

A biomolecule that serves as a fast source of energy?

What are carbohydrates?

100

Name 2 characteristics of living things

What is responds to stimuli, made of one or more cells, displays organization, grows and develops, reproduces, maintains homeostasis, adapts and evolves, requires energy.

100

Testable explanation of a situation or phenomenon.

What is a hypothesis?

100

The study of life

What is biology?

100

To draw a conclusion

What is make an inference?

200

The monomer of proteins.

What are amino acids? 

200
Organisms that can breed & produce fertile offspring

What are species

200

The use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomenon and the knowledge generated through this process.

What is science?

200

Addition to the mass of an organism

Growth

200

When a scientist investigates a phenomenon in a controlled setting to investigate a hypothesis.

What is an experiment?

300

Many monomers of carbohydrates

What are polysaccharides.

300

Properly organize the following from least complex to most complex

organ systems, atoms & molecules, tissues, organs, cells

What is atoms & molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems.

300

The first 3 steps in the scientific process

What is make an observation, form a hypothesis, and conduct an experiment?

300

Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.

What is an adaptation

300

Results from changes of the independent variable in an experiment.

What is the dependent variable?

400

Macromolecule that stores and transport instructions to make proteins

What are nucleic acids?

400

Process of change during an organism's lifetime

What is development?

400

After a scientist has made an observation, formed a hypothesis and conducted an experiment, what are the next 3 steps.

What is get results, draw conclusions, and peer review?

400

Causes a response in a living organism.

What is a stimulus?

400

The expected relationship under certain conditions in nature.

What is scientific law.

500
Steroids are part of this macromolecule group.

What are lipids?

500

The regulation of an organism's internal conditions to maintain life.

What is homeostasis?

500

The relationship between a hypothesis and a theory.

What is a hypothesis may become a theory after many experiments and peer review and is generally accepted as true.

500

The planned and deliberate investigation of the natural world.

What is scientific inquiry?

500

In an experiment when where a group of dogs are receiving new food and their resulting weight gain is measured, the new food is the

What is the independent variable?

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