Cell Biology
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
Units of heredity passed from parents?
What are genes?
Organ that pumps blood?
What is the heart?
All the living and nonliving parts of an area?
What is an ecosystem?
Theory that species change over time?
What is evolution?
Organelle that controls cell activities?
What is the nucleus?
Double helix molecule that carries genetic code?
What is DNA?
System that breaks down food?
What is the digestive system?
Organism that makes its own food?
What is a producer or autotroph?
Scientist who proposed natural selection?
Who is Charles Darwin?
Site of protein synthesis in a cell?
What are ribosomes?
Set of instructions in your DNA that decides your traits?
What are genes?
Gas exchanged in the lungs?
What is oxygen (in) and carbon dioxide (out)?
Role an organism plays in its environment?
What is a niche?
Process where the best traits are passed on?
What is natural selection?
What structure do plant cells have that animal cells don’t?
What is the cell wall?
Word for passing traits from parents to children?
What is heredity?
Main organ of the nervous system?
What is the brain?
Term for species that are no longer alive?
What is extinct?
Similar structures with different functions?
What are homologous structures?
Process that moves water across a membrane?
What is osmosis?
A change in DNA that can cause a different trait?
What is a mutation?
Hormones are produced by which system?
What is the endocrine system?
Natural event where a population grows too large?
What is overpopulation?
What do you call a group of the same species that changes over many generations?
What is a population?