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Made up of the greek roots for 'Life' and 'Study of', this is the field of study of living organism.
What is 'Biology'?
Pg 305, BTD for Biology.
This is the main source of food and energy for cells.
What are 'Carbohydrates'?
Pg 306, The Chemicals for Life section.
In Eukaryotic cells, these store the various materials including the cell's waste.
What are 'Golgi bodies'?
Pg 308, last paragraph
This instrument allows scientists to see the smallest of organism that are studied, such as viruses.
What is an 'Electron Microscope'?
Pg 311, last paragraph.
This is a branch of microbiology and parasitology that focuses on researching the immune system of living things.
What is 'Immunology'?
Pg 314, Immunology section
These are complex molecules that are larger than carbohydrates and fats and are involved in nearly all chemical reactions supporting life.
What are 'Proteins'?
Pg 307, Figure 11.3
This is the full name for the acronym RNA.
What is 'Ribonucleic Acid'?
Pg 307, first half of the page.
Microbiology studies these two categories of living creatures.
What are 'Unicellular and Multicellular'?
Pg 311, first paragraph.
While Eukaryotic cells are compared in structure to a multi-room house, these cells are compared to a single room cabin with different zones.
What are 'Prokaryotic cells'?
Pg 309, Figure 11.6
Mycology is the field of study of these living organisms that use spores during reproduction and some of them are often found on pizza.
What are 'fungi'?
Pg 315, Mycology section
These are the most complex of all the molecules of life and are involved in the creation, repair and reproduction of proteins.
What is 'Nucleic Acid'?
Pg 307, figure 11.3
this is the jelly-like material that suspends the rest of the cells major structures.
What is 'Cytoplasm'?
Pg 308, second paragraph
This is literally the bones, or skeleton, of a cell.
What is the 'Cytoskeleton'?
Pg 310, Figure 11.7
This subcategory of Botany is focused on the structure of plants.
What is 'Plant Physiology'?
Pg 316, Botany and Plant Physiology
Living creatures inheriting traits from their parents is known as _________.
What is 'Heredity'?
Pg 328, Genetics section.
For every ounce of this molecule, it contains twice as many carbohydrates as Carbohydrates and Proteins.
What is 'Fat and/or oil'?
Pg 307, first paragraph.
Carbohydrates are made up of these 2 components.
What are 'sugars and starches'?
Pg 306, The Chemicals of life section.
The cell membrane for Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells have a double membrane called _________.
What are 'Phospholipids'?
Pg 310, first paragraph
Most fungi produce these when they reproduce, including common mushrooms and toadstools.
What are 'Spores'?
Pg 315, last paragraph
The study of the digestive, nervous, musculature and respiratory systems falls under this field of biology.
What is 'Anatomy and Physiology'?
Pg 324, Anatomy and Physiology section.
A deficiency of this chemical in our bodies can lead to muscle cramps as it is required for muscles to contract.
What is 'Potassium'?
Pg 306, Molecular biology and Biochemistry section.
All cells contain these 4 major elements. (Name at least 2)
What are 'carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen'?
Pg 306, Chemical of Life section.
This is the responsible 'Machine' for helping to move big materials into a cell through the membrane via a series of chemicals binding processes.
What is the 'Protein Pump'?
Pg 310, first paragraph
Photosynthesis takes in solar energy + carbon dioxide + water, these are the outputs.
What are 'Glucose sugar + Oxygen'
Pg 317, Figure 11.14
These organisms obtain their food and energy from dead organisms.
What are 'Saprophytes'?
Pg 315, BTD bottom of the page