Is It Really Living?
The Circle of Life
ADI at LHS in CCPS
Evolution of Organelles
Microscopes
100

The stem of a Dandelion flower.

What is Living? 

100

One of the most basic tasks of all living things is to multiply. This characteristic of life describes that particular process.

What is "reproduction?"

100

The acronym ADI is not simply a random pairing of letters. Instead, it stands for this phrase.

What is "Argument-Driven Inquiry?"

100

This organelle located in an animal cell once lived on its own as a prokaryotic cell and is now considered the powerhouse of an animal cell. 

What is a mitochondria

100
These two structures are used to focus on a specimen under a microscope.

What are the coarse adjustment knobs and the fine adjustment knobs.

200

The legs of a wooden table. 

What are non-living? 

200

A sunflower is placed in a window and subsequently begins to turn and grow toward the sunlight. This is indicative of this characteristic of living things.

What is "change and response to stimuli?"

200

After reading the guiding question and completing a few steps of the process, students make a "claim" about their laboratory task. This "claim" is also known as what step in the scientific method?

What is a hypothesis? 

200

The word prokaryotic means this.

What is a single-celled organism?

200

This is done by placing your palm on the base of the microscope and gripping the arm of the microscope with your opposite hand.

What is carrying the microscope? 

300

The elements on the Periodic Table

What are non-living? 

300

The brain's ability to learn new skills as human beings age is known as this.

What is "Development"

300

The process in which students DO NOT label their lab report papers and provide feedback to other students is known as this.

What is double-blind peer review?

300

This theory states that eukaryotic cells arrived from ingesting prokaryotic cells billions of years ago.

What is Endosymbiont Theory?

300

These are the three basic objectives of a general microscope used in Biology lab.

What are 4x, 10x, and 40x?

400

A baby Kangaroo

What is living? 

400

Under a microscope, a researcher can classify a plant cell due to the presence of a cell wall and chloroplasts. The presence of these organelles is known as this.

What is "cellular organization?"

400

The justification step of an ADI lab allows readers and researchers to understand how you concluded your research in a more succinct manner. This step, if done correctly, connects which two pieces of data?

What are the claim and the evidence? 

400

Similarly to mitochondria in animal cells, this organelle made its way into plant cells billions of years ago and is responsible for the "power" of the plant cell.

What is a chloroplast?

400

When in the closed position, this structure blocks light from passing through the specimen, hindering the researcher/scientist from seeing the specimen.

What is the diaphragm? 

500

A viral particle enters the body of a 23-year-old Black female via contaminated food. The virus then enters the bloodstream and multiplies as the blood cells multiply. The virus also moves to the liver via the bloodstream, infecting the liver and causing Hepatitis. 


Describe the virus as living or non-living. 

What is non-living? 

500

Known as metabolism, this is the body's conversion of food/fuel to useful building blocks such as carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids.

What is "using energy" 
500

As a biologist working for NASA you are given the task of looking for microscopic life forms on rocks brought back from Mars. Upon further investigation with a microscope, you find what you think are cells. These objects have a round shape with a defined outer boundary and a small dark-colored object in the center. How would you classify this object?

What is a plant cell?

500
These phrases are definitions of the prefix endo and the word symbiont and allow us a simple way to remember the theory of organelle evolution.

What are "within/internal" and "mutual relationship/beneficial relationship between two things"

500

A scientist is looking through the ocular lens at a plant specimen under a microscope. If the scientist is viewing a specimen with the 10x objective, what is the total magnification that at which they are viewing?  

What is 100x? 

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