Scientific Method
Intro to Bio
Cells
Atoms & Osmosis
Current Topics
100
Explains scientific law. Often referred to as an educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The name for non-living factors.
What is abiotic factors?
100
The basic unit of life. Named after the dormitories where Monks lived.
What is the cell?
100
Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorous, and Sulfur
What is CHNOPS or the six atoms essential for life?
100
The name for the movement of particles from a high concentration to a lower concentration. Requires no energy.
What is diffusion?
200
Observed natural phenomenon. The misconception that it is always true and can't be broken.
What is scientific law?
200
Homeostasis, Organized by Cells, Responds to Stimuli, Develop and Grow, Uses Energy, Reproduces
What is H.O.R.D.E.R. or the characteristics all living things have in common?
200
This organelle is where the nucleolus, chromatin, and DNA is located in Eukaryotes.
What is the nucleus?
200
The type of bond that atoms do when they transfer electrons
What is ionic bonds?
200
This chemical speeds up a chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy.
What is a catalyst?
300
The type of data you record with numbers or numerical value.
What is quantitative data?
300
All living things are made of cells, cells are the basic unit of life, all cells come from existing cells.
What is the cell theory? What are the 3 parts of the cell theory?
300
He discovered and named the cell.
Who is Robert Hook?
300
The name for the movement of water through a semi-permeable membrane
What is osmosis?
300
The name for a NATURAL catalyst. It speeds up a reaction by lowering the activation energy.
What is an enzyme?
400
The variable that is being measured. This variable that is graphed on the y-axis.
What is the dependent variable?
400
Maintaining a constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
400
This organelle is responsible for providing energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
400
The name for the movement of particles from a low concentration to a high concentration.
What is active transport?
400
The name for the substance that the enzyme binds to and changes.
What is a substrate?
500
The variable that the researcher changes in each experiment. The variable that is graphed on the x-axis.
What is the independent variable?
500
Literally means "true kernel". Organisms with a nucleus.
What are Eukaryotes?
500
This organelle is only found in cells that do photosynthesis like plants.
What is a chloroplast?
500
The name for a heavier version of the same atom/element. This atom has a different number of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
500
The name for the place or site on the enzyme where the substrate binds to.
What is the active site?
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