Biomolecules
Vocabulary
Famous Figures
The Cell
Water
100
The biomolecule that is the primary component of the cell membrane.

What is lipids?

100

The way things really are.

Truth

100

Showed that maggots do not spontaneously generate from meat.

What is Francesco Redi?
100

This organelle controls the cell's activities and stores DNA.

What is the nucleus?

100

Water ___________ when it freezes.

What is expands?

200

The biomolecule that provides quick energy

What is carbohydrates?


200
Has mass and takes up space

What is matter?

200

Coined the word "cell," and wrote the book Micrographia.

What is Robert Hooke?

200

This organelle is responsible for photosynthesis.

What is chloroplast?

200

Water is known as the universal _____________.

What is solvent?

300

The biomolecule that stores genetic information

What is nucleic acids?

300
A mental model that accounts for a body of scientific facts and provides a basis for hypotheses.

What is theory?

300

Used microscopes to observe single-celled organisms which he called animalcules.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

300

This organelle provides energy for all the energy-requiring processes of the cell. The "powerhouse" of the cell.

What is mitochondrion?

300

The chemical formula for water.

What is H2O?

400

The carbohydrate that is a primary component of a cell wall.

What is cellulose?

400
A chemical combination of two or more atoms of different atomic numbers.

What is compound?

400

Realized that all plants and all parts of plants are made up of cells.

What is Matthias Jakob Schleiden?

400

The jelly-like fluid that fills the cell and provides the right environment for chemical reactions.

What is cytoplasm?

400

The water molecule has positive charge on one end and negative charge on the other, so it is ______________.

What is polar?

500

The biomolecule that helps build and repair tissue.

What is protein?

500

An informed prediction about what will happen under certain circumstances that is based on a theory and is testable. 

What is hypothesis?

500

Showed that not even the simplest organisms can arise from non-living material with an experiment that involved broth.

What is Louis Pasteur?

500

The organelles that are made from RNA and proteins and make proteins.

What is ribosomes?

500
Water has high surface ____________.

What is tension?