Introduction to Biology
If we break down the word "biology". it would mean this.
What is the study of life?
These are the most reactive elements on The Periodic Table.
What are the alkali metals?
In this type of symbiotic relationship, one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the latter.
What is commensalism?
An example of this type of prokaryote was present on Earth 3.5 billion years ago in the form of cynobacteria. They helped oxygenate the Earth.
What are archaebacteria?
This virus attaches to a bacterium and looks like a creature or a spaceship.
What is a bacteriophage?
It is a complex cell with organelles.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
Biology is considered a branch of this type of science.
What is a life science?
These are the three subatomic particles that every element has.
What are the protons, neutrons, and electrons?
This type of extinction is always going on throughout time.
What is background extinction?
This cell contains petidoglycan in its walls.
What are eubacteria?
This type of virus has RNA instead of DNA for genetic material.
What is a retrovirus?
It is the organelle known as the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What is a mitochondrion? (What are mitochondria?)
This area of biology deals with plants and trees.
What is botany?
An example of this would be H2O and NaCl.
What are compounds?
In this zone of a lake or pond, much sunlight is present for the plants and animals that make of up that lake or pond's ecosystem.
What is the littoral zone?
This structure on a prokaryote helps the cell adhere to the surfaces of other objects.
What are pili?
This medication cannot be used to treat a virus.
What is an antibiotic?
This attachment helps propel or move a bacterium.
What is a flagellum? (What are flagella?)
This physical science is closely tied to the life science of biology.
What is chemistry?
These are the elements that maintain life.
What are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur (CHNOPS)?
This is the process where a poison or toxin increases in concentration as it goes up the trophic levels of a food web.
What is biomagnification?
This shape of bacteria looks like a corkscrew.
What are spirochetes?
This prion disease required England to kill all its cattle in the early 2000s to stop the spread.
What is creutzfeldt jakob disease (madcow)?
These are the three types of eukaryotic cells we study in Biology.
What are animal, plant, and fungi cells?
This area of science deals with genes and traits.
What is genetics?
This number indicates where the element is on The Periodic Table and it is also the number of protons and electrons that particular element has.
What is the atomic number?
The Asian Hornet has been spotted in Alaska as of the summer of 2021. This hornet would be considered this type of species.
What is an invasive species?
This is the area where the genetic material hangs out in a prokaryote cell.
What is the nucleoid region?
This is basically what a infectious prion is.
What is a misfoldded protein?
The three postulates of 1) all biological organisms are composed of cells; 2) cells are the unit of life and 3) all life come from preexisting life describe this.
What is cell theory?