Chemicals of Life
What are the 4 chemicals of life?
What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.
What is cell biology?
What is the study of cells.
What is the definition of unicellular?
What is consisting of a single cell.
What is the definition of Immunology?
What is the focus on the function of plant parts called?
What are plant physiology.
What is the term for growing microorganisms in a controlled environment?
What is culturing.
What is the most complex chemical of life?
What are nucleic acids.
What is the branch of cell biology that focuses on cell structures and how they function called?
Explain how viruses are living things.
What is they are not.
What is the study of fungi called?
What is mycology.
What are the two ways that plants are identified?
What is woody and herbaceous.
What is a special injection of material containing whole or parts of harmful microorganisms that have been killed or weakened so that they don't cause disease?
What is a vaccine.
What is responsible for carrying out the processes of life?
What are cells.
What are the 3 main parts of a eukaryotic cell?
What is the cell membrane, the cytoplasm and the nucleus.
What kind of a microscope is used to view viruses?
What is an electron microscope?
What is the type of fungi that we are most familiar with?
What are club fungi.
What are the two basic kinds of leaves?
What is simple and compound?
What time of the day does cellular respiration take place? What time of the day does photosynthesis take place?
What is cellular respiration, which occurs anytime of the day or night. What is photosynthesis which occurs during the daytime only.
What do carbohydrate molecules include?
What are sugars and starches.
What are the 6 organelles in the eukaryotic cell?
What are ribosomes, nucleus, mitochondria, golgi bodies, lysosome, and vacuole.
What is a way to study microorganisms?
What is to study them in cultures.
What is the definition of saprophytes?
What are organisms that obtain their nourishment from dead organisms.
What are the 5 leaf margins?
What is entire, serrate, dentate, crenate and undulate.
What are 3 ways that many infectious diseases caused by viruses and bacteria are spread?
What is infected people, animals carrying disease and contaminated food or water.
How are RNA and DNA alike?
What is involved in the creation of life, repair, and reproduction of proteins.
What is the unique double layer of molecules in a cell membrane called?
What are Phospholipids.
What is a sub-branch of microbiology that is concerned with the study of organisms that live on or inside other organisms, harming them?
What is parasitology.
What two kinds of fungi are there and what are the most common club fungi?
What are edible and poisonous.
Name all 9 common leaf shapes.
What is linear, elliptical, oval, deltoid, cordate, orbicular, lobed, cleft, and needlelike.
What are 3 ways the book lists that we can prevent infectious diseases from spreading?
What is washing your hands well, wearing protective clothing or bug spray, and making sure your food is well cooked and the water is fresh.