Characteristics of Life
The Scientific Method and Heirarchy of Organization
Macromolecules
Enzymes
Cells
100
All living things are made up of these basic units of life.
What are cells?
100
The first step in the scientific method.
What is ask a question?
100
Made of long chains of amino acid subunits.
What are proteins?
100
An enzyme
What is a molecule that lowers the amount of energy required for a chemical reaction to happen.
100
The energy converter of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
200
A stable state of conditions in the body that are necessary for all living things.
What is homeostasis?
200
An educated guess.
What is a hyothesis?
200
Made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio.
What are carbohydrates?
200
The letters that the names of enzymes end in.
What are a,s,e?
200
Holds all the genetic information.
What is the nucleus?
300
All living things pass on hereditary information. Hereditary information is carried on these structures made of DNA.
What are genes?
300
The level of organization that comes between organ and organism.
What is system?
300
The subunit made of a sugar, phosphate, and base.
What is a nucleotide.
300
The molecule that gets broken up by the enzyme.
What is substrate?
300
The location of photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast.
400
Plants growing towards light is an example of which characteristic of life?
What is response to stimulus?
400
The second and last steps of the scientific method.
What is do research and report findings?
400
A macromolecule that is a major component of the cell membrane.
What are lipids?
400
The substrate for lactase.
What is lactose?
500
All living things reproduce by one of what two methods.
Asexual Reproduction Sexual Reproduction
500
The order of the heirarchy of organization.
What is organelle, cell, tissue, organ, system, organism.
500
A macromolecule produced by the ribosome.
What are proteins?
500
The products produced in the catalase and peroxide enzyme reaction.
What are oxygen and water?
500
Rigid structure surrounding plant cells.
What is cell wall?
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