Nature of Science
A body of knowledge about the natural world and evidence-based process for acquiring that knowledge
What is Science?
Anything that has mass and occupies space.
What is matter?
Every cell has an aqueous interior that contains many different types of biomolecules and it is surrounded by a lipid-based boundary.
What is a plasma membrane?
Many prokaryotes reporoduce asexually through a mechanism called _______.
What is binary fission
Any inherited characteristic of an organism that can be observed or detected in some manner
What is a Genetic trait?
The Scientific Study of Life
What is Biology?
A pure substance that has distinctive physical and chemical properties and cannot be broken down any further
What is an element
Embedded in the cytosol or adrift in it are vital structures.
What are organelles
A process that generates two identical daughter cells from a single parental cell in eukaryotes
What is Mitotic division
The phyiscal characteristics of an organisms.
What is phenotpye?
A description, measurement, or record of any object or phenomenon.
What is an observation?
The smallest unit of an element that still has the distinctive chemical properties of that element.
What is an Atom?
This is known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria
A specialized type of cell division that makes sexual reporductio possible
What is meiosi
The study of Genes.
What is Genetics?
Any aspect of nature that is capable of changing
What is a variable?
______ is an atomic component that has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
This is the protein-making machinery of a cell.
What is a Ribosome
The last stage in the life of an individual cell.
What is cell division?
An Allele that exerts a controlling influence on the phenotype is to be ________.
What is Dominant
A repeatable manipulation of one or more aspect of the natural world.
What is an experiment?
A single Atom has a dense central core.
What is a nucleus?
An organism whose DNA is not confined within a membrane-enclosed nucleus.
What is a prokaryotes
This is the longest stage of the cell cycle.
What is Interphase
An allele that has no effect on the phenotype when paired with a dominant allel.
What is recessive?