Unit 1/2 Intro to Science
What is the first step of the scientific method?
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What is the organelle that transforms chemical energy into useful energy, known as the powerhouse of the cell?
Mitochondria
What is the green light absorbing pigment that helps plants capture light from the sun?
Chlorophyll
When both species benefit from a symbiotic relationship
Metaphase
What is the organized set of investigation procedures used by scientists.
Scientific method
What type of cell has a nucleus surrounded by membrane and contains membrane bound organelles?
Eukaryotes
What type of organism can make its own food through the process of photosynthesis?
Autotroph
Predation
During _____, the cell grows, makes a copy of DNA, and prepares for mitosis.
Interphase
What is the factor that is adjusted or changed by the experimentor?
Independent Variable
The term that describes how some molecules pass the plasma membrane easily, some can pass only at certain times and some can never pass.
Selective permeability
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What type of succession takes place on land where there was no previous living organisms
Primary
Cancer
Scientific Law
This organelle sorts and packages proteins and then ships them out
Golgi Apparatus
What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
6H20 + 6CO2 --> C6H1206 + 6O2
Transpiration
sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
What type of graph is used to show how a fixed quantity is broken down into parts?
The process where large particles are engulfed and then enclosed by the cell membrane and moved into the cell.
Endocytosis
What is the chemical equation for cellular respiration?
O2 + C6H1206 --> CO2 + H20
What is the study of the interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment?
Ecology
two identical strands of DNA