Scientific Method and the Study of Life
Cell Biology
Cellular Energies
Cell Reproduction
Heredity and Molecular Genetics
100
The second step in the Scientific Method.
What is forming a hypothesis.
100
A structure in the cytoplasm of a cell that is surrounded by a membrane.
What is nucleus.
100
An important life process that provides more than 99% of the energy used by living things on earth.
What is photosynthesis.
100
The process when a parent cell divides to form two new daughter cells.
What is cell division.
100
Process in which cells make proteins that include transcription of DNA and translation of mRNA.
What is protein synthesis.
200
Another way to gain scientific knowledge without an experiment.
What is a model.
200
Cells without a nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell.
200
The process that requires oxygen and converts food into chemical energy.
What is cellular respiration.
200
The process of which most prokaryotic cells divide.
What is binary fission.
200
Non-coding regions of mRNA that are removed by splicing.
What is introns.
300
When scientists do studies in nature.
What is Natural Studies.
300
Made mostly of DNA, cannot reproduce without a host.
What is a virus.
300
The first stage of cellular respiration in which glucose splits.
What is glycolysis.
300
Growth Phase 1, Synthesis Phase and Growth Phase 2.
What is interphase.
300
A chart used to determine the probability of different genotypes in the offspring of two parents.
What is a punnet square.
400
Communicating what you have learned with others.
What is communicating results.
400
Cells that contain a nucleus.
What is a eukaryotic cell.
400
Organisms that produce their own food, sometimes through photosynthesis.
What is an autotroph.
400
The disease that occurs when the cell cycle is no longer regulated.
What is cancer.
400
A cross dealing with only one characteristic.
What is a monohybrid cross.
500
The basic methods of gaining knowledge that are common to all of science.
What is the scientific method.
500
The man the invented the microscope in the 1600's.
What(who?) is Robert Hooke.
500
Organelle in eukaryotic cells that makes energy available to the cell in the form of ATP, sometimes known as the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What is a mitochondrion.
500
A mass of abnormal cells.
What is a tumor.
500
The physical appearance of an inherited genotype.
What is a phenotype.
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