biology

What cell am I?

100

I have a cell wall, and chloroplasts

Plant cell

200

I have centrioles and a cell membrane but no cell wall

Animal cell

300

I have flagella, a cell wall, but no membrane bound organelles

bacteria cell

Who am I?

100

I introduced the idea of natural selection

Charles Darwin

200

We "invented" the double helix

Watson and Crick

300

I discovered base pairing rules, (A is always with T, G is always with C)

Erwin Chargaff

400

I used fruit flies to show that genes are on chromosomes

Thomas Morgan

500

We discovered genes are made of DNA not proteins

Hershey and Chase

Functional groups

100

-SH

Sulfyhydyl

200

-OH

hydroxyl

300

-COOH

Carboxyl

400

CH3

Methyl

Vocabulary

100

the study of life

biology

200

a protein that acts a biological catalyst

enzyme

300

a long molecule consisting of many similar building blocks

polymer

400

organisms that obtain food/organic material from other organisms

heterotroph

500

the shared ancestry between a pair of structures or genes in different taxa, and reflects the inheritance of structures from a common ancestor

Homology