It's Alive!!
Let's Eat
Cell-e-bration
Divide and Conquer
Designer Genes
100

From the Greek word meaning "life" plus a suffix meaning "study of"

Biology

100

These three main categories of biological consumers specify what each group eats.

Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores

100

One of the major distinctions between plant and animals cells, this is found on the outside of only plant cells.

Cell Wall

100

The science that studies how characteristics are passed from parent to offspring.

Genetics 

100

This Austrian scientist is called the father of modern genetics.

Gregor Mendel

200

Aristotle postulated that many forms of life originate using this method, after observing maggots appearing on meat.

Spontaneous Generation

200

These organisms break down dead remains of other organisms. 

Decomposers

200

This cell with a membrane-bound nucleus and other distinct, membrane-bound organelles is the kind you can find inside your cheek.

Eukaryotic

200

The process of asexual reproduction in eukaryotic cells.

Mitosis

200

The two-letter set the represents the alleles an organism processes for a certain triat.

Genotype

300

These tiny creatures are too small to see with the naked eye.

Microorganisms 

300

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.

Food Chain

300

The random motion of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.

Diffusion

300

The beginning of sexual reproduction, this is the process by which a diploid cell forms gametes.

Meiosis

300

A genotype with two different alleles

Heterozygous

400

The smallest unit of an organism considered to be "alive".

Cells

400

Links all the food chains in an ecosystem together.

Food Web

400

These two features help a cell hold its shape if it does not have a cell wall.  Name either one.

Cytoskeleton and Endoplasmic Reticulum

400

A stage during mitosis and meiosis, this is when the spindles pull the chromosomes toward the opposite centrioles on each side of the cell.

Anaphase

400

Individuals who have one copy of an allele for a recessive trait but do not exhibit the trait.

Carriers

500

Unlike Heterotrophs, these organisms are able to make their own food.

Autotrophs

500

A measure of the total amount of living tissue or organisms within a tropic level in an ecosystem.

Biomass

500

The name "cell" was coined by Robert Hook to describe the tiny honeycomb-like compartments he viewed under his newly improved microscope while viewing this.

Cork

500

What DNA stands for.

Deoxyribonucleic acid

500

This blood type is often called the "universal donor".

Type O (O-)

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