Scientific Method
An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists with or without evidence to support it.
Belief
What is Unicellular Organisms?
What piece of technology was revolutionary for observing and understanding cells?
Microscope
This person named the cell after examining cork under the microscope.
Robert Hooke
True or False: Bacteria are considered to be living organisms.
True.
A type of graph that is helpful for displaying data changing over time.
What is a line graph?
True or False: Autotrophs get energy from the sun. For example, plants are autotrophs.
All living cells can be classified into these two categories.
Prokaryote and Eukaryote
True or False: only eukaryotic cells contain cell walls.
False
During the 14th century, 25% of Europe was killed by a bacterium (called the Bubonic Plague) spread through which organisms.
Rodents and Fleas
An explanation of the natural world that has been supported by large bodies of evidence from conducted experiments.
What is a theory?
Light, temperature, and sound evoke specific reactions from an organism. They are called:
What is Stimuli?
Daily Double!
What are the three parts of the cell theory?
Name 3 cell organelles common to both plants and animals.
Cell Membrane
Nucleus
Ribosomes
Cytoplasm
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Golgi Apparatus
Vesicles
Mitochondria
Lysosomes
This person was credited with inventing the first compound microscope.
Zacharias Janssen
The calculation for finding the total magnification under a compound microscope.
Eyepiece magnification x Objective lens magnification
The basic unit of structure and function in living things is:
What is a cell?
Name two traits that are specific to prokaryotes.
- less complicated
- do not have a nucleus
- have less organelles
Name 3 characteristics that are different between plant and animal cells.
- presence of chloroplasts
- presence of cell wall
- size of vacuole
This person was the first to observe living cells using the scrapings of his teeth.
Anton Van Leewenhoek
What is the difference between independent and a dependent variable?
What are the four major macromolecules or building blocks of life?
Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, and Nucleic Acids
Name 2 traits for eukaryotic cells.
- have a nucleus
- more complex
- can be unicellular or multicellular
The theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts, at one point in evolution, were separate from the cell we know today.
Endosymbiotic Theory
The belief that things came and arose from non-living things. This idea was eventually disproved and helped make way for the Cell Theory.
Spontaneous Generation