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A high school requirement for many, it's the scientific study of life.
What is biology?
This green pigment is the plant’s solar panel.
What is chlorophyll?
Twisting like a spiral staircase, this molecule carries your genetic blueprint.
What is DNA (double helix)?
He sailed on the HMS Beagle and changed how we view life’s diversity.
Who is Charles Darwin?
All the living and nonliving parts of an area, working together like an orchestra.
What is an ecosystem?
This jelly-like goo fills the cell, holding organelles like fruit in gelatin.
What is cytoplasm?
It's the 2-word science dealing with all forms of life found in the oceans.
What is marine biology?
This organelle is where plants turn sunlight into sugar.
What is the chloroplast?
These building blocks have a sugar, a phosphate, and one of four nitrogen bases.
What are nucleotides?
We’re all members of this group if we can mate and have fertile offspring.
What is a species?
A cow is one; it eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Tiny but mighty, these cell workers build proteins without ever clocking out.
What are ribosomes?
Traditionally, biology is divided into 2 major fields: botany & this study of animals.
What is zoology?
The sweet reward of photosynthesis, this sugar fuels plant and animal cells alike.
What is glucose?
In the language of DNA, “A” is always paired with this letter.
What is T (thymine)?
Like two tools that do the same job but are built differently, these structures are similar in function but not origin.
What are analogous structures?
These life forms are nature’s chefs, making food from sunlight.
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
Like a nightclub bouncer, this structure decides who gets in and who stays out.
What is the cell membrane?
Branch of biology defined as the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.
What is microbiology?
When oxygen is scarce, your cells switch to this backup plan to make energy.
What is anaerobic respiration (or fermentation)?
Before a cell divides, this process makes a photocopy of its DNA library.
What is DNA replication?
These random typos in your DNA can sometimes change your traits — for better or worse.
What are mutations?
With a little lightning or bacteria, nitrogen gas transforms into a usable form in this process.
What is nitrogen fixation?
In a plant cell, this water-filled warehouse is the largest space in the building.
What is the central vacuole?
It's the science dealing with the relationship between organisms & their environment.
What is ecology?
Think of it as the cell’s rechargeable battery, storing energy for when it’s needed.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
It’s the genetic delivery truck, hauling instructions from the nucleus to the ribosome.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
The slow, steady change in a population’s genetic makeup over generations.
What is evolution?
The largest crowd an environment can comfortably host without running out of resources.
What is carrying capacity?
Think of it as the cell’s post office — modifying, packaging, and sending proteins on their way.
What is the Golgi apparatus?