Lab Rats
Why is the grass green?
So many cells, so little time
Lab Grab Bag
Whatever floats your boat
100
The onion cells we observed stacked up to look like this common building material.
What is bricks?
100
These are all of the colors of the visible light spectrum.
What is R.O.Y.G.B.V?
100
This is one important difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
What is a lack of membrane-bound organelles or a lack of a nucleus?
100
This is the function of neurons.
What is "send electrical impulses"?
100
This was the name of the liquid the disk rose in during the Enzyme Lab.
What is hydrogen peroxide?
200
This is the name for the stain used on the cheek cells.
What is methylene blue?
200
The pigment chlorophyll doesn't absorb but does this to the green wavelength of light.
What is reflect?
200
This organelle is considered to be the powerhouse of both plant and animal cells.
What is the mitochondria?
200
This is the term for the process of separating plant pigments using special paper.
What is chromatography?
200
This is the name for forcing water into a spinach disk to make it less dense and forcing it to sink.
What is infiltrating?
300
This is a single-celled eukaryotic organism with lots of cilia shaped like a boat.
What is a paramecium?
300
These are the three essential reactants needed for photosynthesis to occur.
What are water, carbon dioxide and light?
300
This is the name of the theory that states chloroplasts and mitochondria once lived outside of eukaryotic cells as prokaryotes.
What is the "endosymbiotic theory"?
300
This is the proper pronunciation of "O-L-A-T-H-E".
What is OLAY-THA?
300
The source of this was yeast; it's the name of one of the most common enzymes in the body.
What is catalase?
400
This common feature of plant cells was not found in the cheek cells.
What is a cell wall?
400
On what membrane do most pigments remain, waiting to capture light energy?
What is the thylakoid membrane?
400
This is an example of high surface area to volume ratio found in nature.
What is the folds of a mitochondria, loops of small intestine, neuron cells etc.?
400
The time it took for spinach disks to float in the spinach lab was a measure of this.
What is the net photosynthesis occurring?
400
This mixture was the source of carbon for photosynthesis to occur in in the spinach leaf disk lab.
What is sodium bicarbonate?
500
This is the name for a pigment other than chlorophyll from the chromatography lab.
What is a carotenes or xanophyll?
500
This is the name for the inside of a chloroplast, similar to cell cytoplasm.
What is the stroma?
500
Other than a cell wall, name two more differences between a plant cell and an animal cell.
What is chloroplast and large central vacuole?
500
There are the two reasons scientists use to answer the question about why leaves change color in the fall; this is one of them.
What is colder weather, and shorter days for absorption.
500
This word is commonly used to describe proteins, enzymes or otherwise that got too hot and stop working; a possibility in both the Enzyme lab and the Spinach Lab.
What is "denaturation"?
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