Microbiome
This is the collection of all the microorganisms living in and on an organism.
What is the microbiome?
These are the building blocks of starch and protein
What is starch breaking down to glucose and protein breaking down to amino acids
This organelle controls the cell and holds DNA.
What is the nucleus?
Cells perform cellular respiration to make this molecule.
What is ATP energy?
Proteins are made from these small building-block molecules.
These living things are so small you can’t see them without a microscope—but your body has trillions of them. (2 possible answers)
What are cells and microorganisms (microbes)?
This system brings oxygen into the body, which is needed for metabolism.
What is the respiratory system?
This jelly-like substance holds all cell parts. This second organelle controls and enters and exits the cell.
What is cytoplasm and the cell membrane?
These two things are needed for cellular respiration to happen.
What is oxygen and glucose?
Besides determining traits, performing functions, and controlling processes, proteins help the cells do what?
What is grow and repair?
Even though both are invisible to the naked eye, these are much bigger: cells or molecules?
What are cells?
This body system brings in food molecules needed for energy and growth and repair.
What is the digestive system?
This organelle makes ATP energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
Cellular respiration happens in this organelle.
What are mitochondria?
A change in a gene changes a protein's structure and shape, which can lead to a change in the organism's what?
What is trait?
These medicines can kill harmful bacteria—but they also reduce helpful bacteria, creating extra food and space for harmful ones.
What are antibiotics?
Ms. Calderon is at the park. She feels a bee land on her hand, jerks her arm away, and starts running away. Name FOUR systems that work together to allow Ms. Calderon to perform this action.
What is the Nervous System, Respiratory system, Muscular System, and Circulatory System
Plant cells have this organelle to make food using sunlight.
What are chloroplasts?
This gas is released as a waste product during cellular respiration.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Why do some organisms have different traits even if they are the same species?
What are differences in the proteins their cells make?
Your body is like a giant apartment building for microbes because it provides these two things they need to survive.
What is food and space?
"The set of life sustaining chemical reactions in organisms in which food is converted to energy" is the definition of this term.
What is metabolism?
The ribosomes make/synthesize the proteins, the endoplasmic reticulum (rough ER) transports and modifies these proteins ensuring they are correctly folded into the right structure, and this organelle further processes, sorts, and packages proteins for their specific functions within or outside the cell.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
Explain the process of cellular respiration? Include systems, molecules involved in those systems, and step by step process.
What is the process of food molecules like starch and protein being taken in by the digestive system and being broken down into glucose and amino acids. The glucose combines with the oxygen taken in by the respiratory system and enters the mitochondria where ATP energy is released along with carbon dioxide and water as byproducts.
Explain the difference between features and traits. Give 3 examples of each.
Possible answers:
Feature: Hair ; Trait: Hair Color
Feature: Eyes ; Trait: Lazy Eye
Feature: Fingers ; Trait: Double-jointed fingers