Scientific Processes
VOCAB
Characteristics of Living Things
Viruses
Levels of Organization
100
Hypothesis
What is another word for an "educated guess" in science?
100
A living thing!
What is an organism?
100
A cell
What is the basic unit of life?
100
DNA/RNA and protein
What is a virus made of?
100
Atoms
What is the smallest part matter?
200
Control Variable
What is the variable that stays the same throughout the experiment?
200
A living thing made of only ONE cell.
What is a unicellular organism?
200
DNA and RNA
What are the 2 forms of genetic information?
200
Shape, what it infects, and genetic material
What are the ways to classify a virus?
200
Cells
What is the smallest part of a living thing?
300
Indepedent Variable
What is the variable that your are changing or testing in the experiment?
300
Type of reproduction involving only one parent's DNA. "Making a copy"
What is asexual reproduction?
300
Evolve
What word describes a species changing over time?
300
Lytic
What is the term for a virus life cycle that results in baby viruses making your cells burst?
300
Tissue
What is a term for cells with a similar function/in the same organ?
400
Dependent Variable
What is the variable that you are measuring?
400
A reaction that "builds"
What is an anabolic reaction?
400
Grow and Develop
All living things __________ and ___________.
400
Lysogenic
What is the term for a virus life cycle that injects it's DNA into your cells?
400
A community
What is a group of species called?
500
Y Axis
Which axis does the dependent variable go on?
500
A reaction that "breaks down"
What is a catabolic reaction?
500
Stimulus
What is the word for something that causes an organism to react.
500
Is not a cell, cannot reproduce on it's own, does not maintain homeostasis, does not react to it's environment
Why is a virus not living?
500
The Biosphere
What is the combination of all of earths ecosystems combined?
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