Basics of Biology
The smallest unit of a living thing.
What is a cell?
These small molecules can be joined together by dehydration synthesis to form a large molecule called a macromolecule.
What are monomers?
This is small section of DNA that codes for the sequence of amino acids in a specific protein.
What is a gene?
This is the study of interactions between living organisms and the nonliving factors in the environment.
What is ecology ?
These body systems work together during exercise.
What are the respiratory and circulatory system?
This structure made of phospholipids is a semi-permeable boundary that regulate what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Simple carbohydrates called monosaccharides (like glucose) combine to from this macromolecule.
What is a polysaccharide? (starch, cellulose, glycogen)
These are different forms of the same gene.
What are alleles?
The number of organisms a given habitat can support indefinitely with resources needed for life.
What is the carrying capacity?
The ability of an organism to maintain a constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
The macromolecule is made by combining 3 fatty acids and a glycerol.
What is a lipid ? or What is a fat?
He performed numerous experiments on pea plants. The results allowed him to develop basic principles of genetics.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
The physical location where an organism can survive.
What is an organism's habitat?
What is diffusion? or What is passive transport?
This type of molecule is formed when nucleotides combine.
What is a nucleic acid?
This type of allele will mask the expression of another allele.
What is a dominant gene?
The specific role an organism plays within its habitat. For example, producer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore or decomposer.
What is an organism's niche?
This would happen if a red blood cell was placed in a hyertonic solution.
What is plasmolysis? or What is water would leave the cell and cytoplasm would shrink away from the cell membrance?
This type of molecule is formed when amino acids are joined together by a peptide bond during a series of chemical reactions that occur at the ribosome.
What is a polypeptide (or protein)?
This type of trait will only be observed when both alleles inherited are of the same type.
What is a recessive trait?
When two organisms of different species live closely associated and one benefits while the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?