Investigating and understanding the natural world in order to explain events and to use those explanations to make useful predictions.
What is the goal of science?
100
The process in which autotrophs make food.
What is photosynthesis?
100
Biologists divide cells into these two categories.
What are prokaryote and eukaryote?
100
Atoms are neutral because of the equal number of these subatomic particles.
What are electrons and protons?
100
A biological catalyst that speeds up a chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy needed to get the reaction started.
What are enzymes?
200
Scientist use these to generate hypotheses.
What are prior knowledge, logical inference, and informed, creative imagination?
200
Also referred to as comsumers.
What is a heterotroph?
200
A network of protein filaments that helps the cell to maintain shape.
What is cytoskeleton?
200
A chemical substance formed by the chemical combination of two or more elements in definite proportions.
What is a compound?
200
The form of diffusion is fast and specific.
What is facilitated diffusion?
300
This type of data or observation involves charateristics that cannot be measured or counted.
What is qualitative?
300
This links together all of the series of steps in which organisms transfer energy within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
The organism involved in the synthesis of proteins, the site of chemical modification after production.
What is the RER or Rough ER?
300
Used to prevent sudden drops in pH when reacting with a strong acid or strong base.
What is buffer?
300
Living things share these 8 following charateristics
What are
1. all livings are made up of cells
2. reproduction
3. universal genetic code
4. growth and development
5. obatin and use material and energy (metabolism)
6. respond to their environment (stimulus)
7. maintain a stable internal environment (homeostasis)
8. change over time (evolution)
400
The method that scientist use to solve problems.
What is the scientific method?
400
Only 10 percent of the energy available within one trophic level is transferred to organisms at the next trophic levels, represented by this type of diagram.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
The site where proteins are modified, packaged and shipped to other places in the cell.
What is the golgi apparatus?
400
Solutions with a pH above 7 formed because they have more OH- ions than H+ ions
What is basic?
400
This organic compound consists of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base.
What is a nucleic acid?
500
Living things may be studied on many different levels.
What are levels of organization?
500
Process in which bacteria convert nitrates into nitrogen gas.
What is denitrification?
500
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
500
The group of organic compounds found in living things that contain macromolecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and proteins?
500
Three types of concentration that can result from osmosis.