Cells & Organelles
This organelle acts as the powerhouse of the cell, generating ATP energy through cellular respiration.
What is the Mitochondria?
This double-helix shaped molecule carries the genetic instructions for all living things.
What is DNA?
This green pigment inside chloroplasts absorbs sunlight to power photosynthesis.
What is Chlorophyll?
This term describes an organism that can make its own food using energy from the sun.
What is a Producer (or Autotroph)?
This scientist is famous for developing the theory of evolution by natural selection after studying finches in the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Unlike animal cells, plant cells have this rigid outer layer that provides structural support and protection.
What is the Cell Wall?
This is the specific type of cell division that produces four genetically diverse daughter cells (gametes) with half the original DNA.
What is Meiosis?
These are the two primary products created by the process of photosynthesis.
What are Glucose and Oxygen?
This is a non-living physical or chemical factor in an ecosystem, such as sunlight, water, or temperature.
What is an Abiotic factor?
These are remnants or traces of ancient organisms preserved in rock that provide evidence for evolution.
What are Fossils?
This is the jelly-like fluid that fills the cell and holds all the organelles in place.
What is the Cytoplasm?
An allele that can mask or hide the expression of another allele is known as this.
What is a Dominant Allele?
This type of cellular respiration does not require oxygen to break down sugars.
What is Anaerobic Respiration (or Fermentation)?
This type of symbiotic relationship happens when both organisms benefit from interacting with each other.
What is Mutualism?
This term describes body parts in different species that share a similar structure because they evolved from a common ancestor, like a human arm and a whale flipper.
What are Homologous Structures?
This organelle contains digestive enzymes to break down waste, worn-out cell parts, or foreign invaders.
What is a Lysosome?
This term describes an organism that has two different alleles for a specific trait (like Bb).
What is Heterozygous?
These are the tiny pores on the underside of leaves that allow gas exchange (carbon dioxide in, oxygen out).
What are Stomata?
This law states that only about this percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next highest level in an energy pyramid.
What is the 10% Law?
This is the highest and broadest level of classification for organisms, sitting above the kingdom level.
What is a Domain?
This type of transport requires cell energy (ATP) to move molecules against their concentration gradient from low to high concentration.
What is Active Transport?
This is a mistake or permanent change in the nucleotide sequence of DNA.
What is a Mutation?
Cellular respiration takes place primarily in this organelle.
What is the Mitochondria?
This term refers to the maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustainably support.
What is Carrying Capacity?
This two-word naming system uses an organism's Genus and species names to give it a scientific name.
What is Binomial Nomenclature?