Introduction to Biology
This is the procedure of scientific inquiry used to investigate natural phenomena.
What is the scientific method?
This is a positively charged particle.
What is a proton?
This is the day of the first unit test in Biology.
What is Thursday?
A proposed explanation for an occurrence based on available data, observations, or evidence.
What is a hypothesis?
A molecule made up of at least two different types of atoms.
What is a compound?
The largest organelle in the cell, which contains genetic information and controls cell function.
What is a nucleus?
A nucleic acid that has a double helix structure and carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
This person is from Bloomfield, IA.
Who is Ms. Hougland?
A description of a natural phenomenon that is always observed to occur under specific conditions.
What is a scientific law?
This forms when atoms share electrons in their outer energy levels, or shells.
What are covalent bonds?
Segments of DNA that encode for proteins.
What are genes?
Name the four sections that the Unit 1 Biology test covers.
What is Introduction to Biology, Introduction to Biochemistry, Cells: Basic Units of Life, and Cells: Processes and Transport?
The precision with which equipment or a test measures what it is intended to measure.
What is Validity?
A process that involves the rearrangement of atoms, molecules, or both to form new substances.
What is a chemical reaction?
Who discovered Cells?
Who is Robert Hooke?
The process in which the ribosome attaches to messenger RNA and forms a protein.
What is translation?
This is the Unit 2 that will be covered next in Biology.
What is Organ Systems?
This helps scientists analyze more information, observe minute details in their theories, find flaws in their designs and results, and reduce bias.
What is being skeptical?
An organic compound made up of amino acids.
What are proteins?
He was the first person to discover live cells under a microscope.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
The movement of substances across the plasma membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration without the need of energy.
What is passive transport?
Activity in which you'd use a hook line & sinker.
What is fishing?