Characteristics of Life
The sum of all chemical reactions in an individual cell to sustain life.
What is metabolism?
Name the two missing divisions:
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, __________, Order, Family, ___________, Species
What are Class & Genus?
The three basic parts of an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
The monomer or building block of proteins.
What is an amino acid?
This type of cell has a nucleus and organelles.
What is eukaryotic?
The opposite of disorder.
What is organization?
This type of cell has no nucleus or organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
The element signified by the symbol H.
What is hydrogen?
Another fancy name for a simple sugar.
What is a monosaccharide?
The structure in a cell in which proteins are synthesized.
What is a ribosome?
Small changes to live in a changing environment.
What is adaptation?
This type of energy is energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This is at the center of an atom, where protons and neutrons are found.
What is the nucleus?
The ability of water to rise up and defy gravity.
What is capillary action?
This is where recycling and processing in a cell occurs.
What is a lysosome?
The ability of an organism to maintain a constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
Organisms that must eat other organisms for food.
What are consumers?
A pure substance that is composed of a unique type of atom.
What is an element?
The name of a reaction where water is removed.
What is dehydration?
These organelles are known as the powerhouses of the cell.
What are mitochondria?
Transferring genetic material to the next generation.
What is reproduction?
A change in an organism's DNA that alters the information contained in the DNA.
What is a mutation?
The element signified by the symbol Na.
What is sodium?
A very special macromolecule often thought of as the information-carrying molecules in an organism.
What are nucleic acids?
(Will also accept DNA or RNA).
The structure within the nucleus that is important in the production of ribosomes.
What is the nucleolus?