Nature of Science
The variable that the scientist changes on purpose.
What is independent variable?
The smallest functional and structural unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
The passing of genetic material from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place.
What is chloroplast?
The broadest category of the current classification system.
What is Domain?
The variable that is being measured and changes due to the change of the other variable.
What is dependent variable.
Any living thing.
What is an organism?
Segments of DNA.
What are genes?
Another word for an organism that uses photosynthesis.
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
What are the three Domains?
What is constant?
What is the nucleus?
The allele that contributes to the phenotype if one or two copies are present. Represented with capital letter.
What is the dominant allele?
What are carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water?
The two domains that are Prokaryotes.
What are Archaea and Bacteria?
Data gathered using the five senses.
What are observations?
large central vacuole, chloroplast, and cell wall
What are the three organelles a plant cell has that an animal cell does not?
The allele that contributes to the phenotype only when two copies of it are present. Represented with two lower case letters.
What is the recessive gene?
The products of photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen?
Animal, Plant, Fungi, and Protist.
What are the four kingdoms?
The five main steps of the scientific method.
What are Problem, Hypothesis, Procedure, Data, and Conclusion?
-all organisms made of cells
-basic unit of life
-cells from other cells
What is the cell theory?
A graphic used to predict the possible genotype of offspring.
What is a Punnett square?
Green pigment in the cell that captures the energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
The level of classification that organisms must share in order to successfully reproduce.
What is species?