TAXONOMY
A scientist who divides organisms into categories based on similarities
What is a taxonomist?
The important ratio to consider when explaining why small cells are more efficient than large cells
What is surface area/volume ratio?
A scientist who named "cells" after the tiny rooms monks live in after observing them in his self-made microscope
Who is Robert Hook?
A type of active transport that takes large molecules into a cell within a vesicle
What is endocytosis?
The process that occurs when sperm and egg fuse
***What is fertilization?
The word for kernel
What is karyote?
The smallest cell in the human body
What is a sperm cell?
The broadest category that scientists use to classify organisms
What is domain?
The offspring of two different species
***What is a hybrid?
One of two elements that is consumed by Venus Fly Traps since they are not able to absorb it from the acidic Carolina soils
What is nitrogen or phosphorus?
A group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific function.
What is tissue?
The name of the cell membrane model that was given by Singer and Nicolson in 1972
***What is the fluid-mosaic model?
The scientific name for sperm and egg cells
***What are gametes?
The word for nutrition
What is troph?
The largest organ in the human body
***What is the skin?
The term for the organelles in eukaryotic cells that contain digestive enzymes
What are lysosomes?
The first word in an organism's universal binomial nomenclature name
What is a genus?
The scientific name for the trigger hairs that elicit a closing response of Venus Fly Trap pads
***What are trichomes?
A macromolecule of life that always contains the element phosphorus and a base
***What is a nucleic acid?
Movement of molecules across the plasma membrane through protein channels from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration
What is facilitated diffusion?
The fraction of gametes as compared to somatic cells (looking for a fraction)
What is half?
The word for cell
***What is cyto?
How often your body is producing 25 million new cells
What is every second?
The scientific term for the protein that causes "mad cow disease"
What is prion
A past scientist who is often called the father of taxonomy (first and last name)
***Who is Carl Linnaeus?
The scientific name given to a wishbone which is the fusion of the clavicles in a turkey that allows for elasticity like a spring to store and release energy when the wings are flapping
What is a furcula?
This organelle in plants is where photosynthesis occurs
What is the chloroplast?
Holes in the exoskeleton of an insect that allow oxygen to enter and diffuse into cells
What are spiracles?
The number of chromosomes in somatic human cells
What is 46?
The word for "study of"
What is ology?
The muscle that can exert the most force inside the human body
What is the masseter or jaw muscle
Bacteria and this other domain make up the two prokaryotic domains.
What is archaea?
A structure in a tardigrade that is round and has muscles that work like cheeks to suck up food
What is the buccopharyngeal apparatus?
An organelle that is made in the nucleolus and puts together chains of amino acids
What is a ribosome?
A solution that has less solute
What is hypotonic?
The scientific term for the first cell created after sperm and egg fuse
What is zygote?
The word for putting together
What is synthesis?
The smallest bone in the human body
What is the stirrup bone?
A taxonomic kingdom which birds belong to
What is kingdom animalia?
The type of tissue that we observed under the microscope from our cheeks
What is epithelial tissue?
An organelle that contains christae to increase its surface area
What is a mitochondrium?
The maintenance of a stable internal environment for a cell
What is homeostasis?
The scientific term for the pair of male and female chromosomes coding for the same characteristics
What are homologous chromosomes?
The word for method
What is nomia?
The tallest tree in the world standing at 379 feet tall
What is the Sequoia redwood?