Standards and Form
This includes your name, course number, due date, and title.
What is the header?
What you write down when looking at an object of interest.
What are observations?
A property of life that might apply to your bookshelf -- or your digestive system.
What is 'order'?
Mainly made of carbon and hydrogen, this is a molecule that stores energy for the long-term -- or insulates you from the cold!
What is a lipid?
This membraned organelle houses the DNA -- and is continuous with the rough endoplasmic reticulum!
What is the nucleus?
You use these when you say something that is not common knowledge.
What are citations?
It's less supported than a theory or law, but often based on previous observations.
What is a hypothesis?
A method by which a species can propagate itself.
What is 'reproduction'?
Chains of nitrogenous bases attached to sugar-phosphate backbones.
What are nucleic acids?
These double-membraned organelles help the cell to process sugar into large amounts of ATP!
This form of rhetoric relies on an author's experience or credentials.
What is ethos?
A way of testing the effect of applying a condition to a group -- often planned with an unaffected control group.
What is a controlled experiment?
A concept investigated by Charles Darwin and demonstrated by the finches of the Galapagos Islands.
What is 'evolution'?
Made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, these are a main component of cakes, cookies, and pasta.
What are carbohydrates?
This membraned organelle acts as a 'sorting center' for various vesicles, sending products from ribosomes to where they need to go.
What is the golgi body?
This form of rhetoric relies on reasoning and data-driven arguments.
What is logos?
What are results?
This allows for the conversion of foodstuffs into a biological power source.
What is 'energy processing'?
The most functionally diverse macromolecule: able to make ion channels, enzymes, receptors, and more!
What are proteins?
This membraned organelle is where lipids are made and modified before being sent into the cell.
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
A form of overly-detailed writing is often described using this phrase, which we try to avoid in the sciences.
What is 'purple prose'?
This is where you might report your hypothesis, methods, results, and interpretations of an experiment for the wider scientific community.
What is a peer-reviewed scientific journal?
A way of interacting with the surrounding environment -- much like how you're reading this question!
What is 'response to stimuli'?
These are the four bases used in RNA.
What are adenine, uracil, guanine, and cytosine?
This organelle is a pigment-carrier found in plants, but it's not the chloroplast.
What is a plastid?