Life Science
The name of the food molecule produced by plants.
What is glucose?
This group of major chemical compounds found in cells includes simple sugars and starches.
What are carbohydrates?
A type of medicine that only works on living organisms, such as bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
A term used to describe toothless whales.
What are baleen whales?
The layers of the Earth where life exists.
What is the biosphere?
This is where an organism stores its DNA within the cell.
What is the nucleus?
The chemical process by which an organism converts food into usable energy, represented by the following equation:
glucose sugar + oxygen --> energy + carbon dioxide + water
What is cellular respiration?
These organelles provides energy for the cell to use.
What are mitochondria?
This protein gives organisms from phylum Porifera their flexible and elastic properties.
What is spongin?
This term describes an organism’s position in a food chain or food web based on how it gets energy.
What is a trophic level?
This process of regulation describes an organism's ability to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
This term refers to the reproductive portion of a fungi.
What is the fruiting body?
A cell's semipermeable membrane is made out of a unique double layer of these molecules.
What are phospholipids?
This ecosystem experiences the greatest environmental changes of all ecosystems.
What is the intertidal zone?
The first organisms to establish homes in a barren or disturbed environment.
What is a pioneer species?
This Latin-based classification system references a organism's genus and species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
The 4 major elements contained in all cells.
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
Various types of tissues that work together.
What are organs?
This layer of tissue produces a mollusk's shell.
What is the mantle?
An extreme type of mutualism where 2 organisms live together and cannot survive with out each other.
These units carry the genetic code necessary to build and control the molecules of living organisms.
What are nucleotide bases?
The part of a plant that connects the leaf blade to the stem.
What is the petiole?
This type of tissue forms protective barriers throughout the body and is designed to rapidly multiply as cells become worn out and damaged.
What is epithelial tissue?
The method by which organisms in phylum Echinodermata move.
What is the water vascular system?
Plants that live on the surface of other plants.
What are epiphytes?