The Science of Life
The Study of Life.
What is Biology?
A tiny structure in a cell that carries out a specific function necessary for the cell to survive.
What is an organelle?
The study of plants.
What is Botany?
Invertebrates lack this.
What is a backbone?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
A possible explanation that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
The control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
The fine dust that contains the sperm of seed producing plants.
What is pollen?
The type of symmetry by which an organism an can be cut into two identical halves by any longitudinal cut through its center.
What is radial symmetry?
Organisms that develop an egg hatched outside of the mother's body.
What is oviporous?
An organism that makes their own food.
What is an autotroph?
Double membrane-bound organelles found only in plants.
What are plastids? (or chloroplasts, chromoplasts, or leucoplasts)
The female reproductive parts of the flower.
What is the carpal (or stigma)?
A type of eye made of many lenses.
What is a compound eye?
Fish and sharks have a heart with this many chambers.
What is two?
The process by which plants turn sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The site of protein synthesis.
What are ribosomes?
Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and substances throughout the plant.
What is phloem?
The stage between an egg and an adult in incomplete metamorphosis.
What is a nymph?
This class of vertebrate goes through metamorphosis in their lifetime and have a three chambered heart.
What are amphibians or class amphibia.
An abrupt or marked change to DNA of an organism compared to their parents.
What is a mutation?
The random motion from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
What is the diffusion?
A growth response to gravity.
What is gravitropism?
What is a head, thorax, and abdomen?
A structure that allows an embryo to be nourished by the mother's blood supply.
What is a placenta?