Famous Scientists
Created model of DNA
Who are Watson and Crick?
A term that means 'a process of change over time.'
What is the term evolution?
The organelle responsible for building proteins?
What is a ribosome?
Part of the experiment that may change the outcomes of the experiment?
What is a manipulated variable?
Biology is the science of _____?
Life
Father of Genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A term referring to an organism, indicating an organism with unique features, one of a kind.
What is a species?
Where does transcription take place?
Nucleus
The final step of the scientific method?
Communicating the results to the world.
The measurement system used in science that allows world-wide understanding of scientific data used in experiments.
Metric system
Discovered 'rules' that govern how certain bases bond with other bases in the DNA molecule.
Who is Chargaff's Rules?
A term describing the struggles and adaptations an organism goes through to survive with the toughest members of it species in its environment.
Survival of the fittest.
What is the macromolecule containing amino acids building blocks?
What is a protein?
Part of the experiment that uses the 5 senses to make ______.
observations
Gregor Mendel's occupation while he experimented with the garden pea?
Monk or spiritual priest.
Traveled on the HMS Beagle ship to the Galapagos Islands
Who is Charles Darwin?
Why was Charles Darwin chosen to accompany the captain aboard the ship HMS Beagle?
He kept good company with the captain.
What is the cell organelle containing ribosomes?
Cytoplasm
Part of the process that 'tests' the hypothesis?
Experimentation
The science that studies earth, it structure and composition?
Earth Science
Photographed the DNA molecule inspiring Watson and Crick to build a DNA model.
Who is Rosalind Franklin
A body part that, in the past, served the organism well but today is dysfunctional.
A body part that is vestigial
What is the enzyme that helps catalyze the creation of mRNA?
What is RNA Polymerase?
Anything that influences the outcome of the controlled experiment.
What is a variable?
The biological science that describes investigating microorganisms.
Microbiology