The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
What stage of cell division is it when chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell?
What is metaphase?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
The balance maintained in living things to keep them alive
What is homeostasis?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
shape of a DNA molecule
double helix
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
The study of how organisms interact with one another and their environment.
What is ecology?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
Number of chromosomes in each human cell
HH, LL, AA, and TT are all examples of what type of genotypes?
What are homozygous dominant genotypes?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
The book is 5cm thick. The flower has 5 petals. The man ran 6.2 miles. These are all examples of...
What are quantitative observations?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
An alteration to the genetic code
What is a mutation?
This scientist is famous for studying organisms in the Galapagos Islands and for his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Number of daughter cells at the end of meiosis
What are 4?
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
Who is the scientist that coined the term "cells"?
Who is Robert Hooke?
4 nitrogenous bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
Group of simple organisms without a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
What is osmosis?
Father of Genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Cells with a nucleus
What are eukaryotic cells?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is a trait?
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
The passing of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
Three domains of life.
What are Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya?
Three parts of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate, sugar, and nitrogenous base?