Water Properties
Water has how many atoms of hydrogen
2
Smallest unit of life
cells
One living thing
organism
The building blocks for carbohydrates are
sugars or monosaccharides
An educated Guess
hypothesis
Water molecules sticking to water molecules is called
cohesion
response
A group of tissues working together for a specific function
organ
The main function of lipids is
energy storage (long term)
The variable that you measure in an experiement
Dependent
Water molecules sticking to other substances is called
adhesion
The sum of all chemical reactions in a cell (body)
metabolism
Different populations living together in the same area
community
The building blocks (monomers) of proteins are
amino acids
The variable that you change or manipulate in an experiment
Independent
substance that does the dissolving
solvent
How do offspring created by asexual reproduction compare to the parent?
They are identical
All of the different communities (living) and physical environment (nonliving) factors in an area
ecosystem
Two examples of nucleic acids are
DNA and RNA
The group that does not receive anything in the experiment
control group
Describes something that "loves" water
hydrophilic
A body's pancreas produces insulin to balance sugar in the body is an example of
homestasis
Name the levels of organization from least to greatest starting with cells (9).
cells, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere
What three things make up a nucleotide, (which is the building block of nucleic acids)?
phosphate, sugar and a base
When an experiment is repeated over and over with the same results, the hypothesis becomes a __
Theory