What is the smallest unit that carries on life functions
100
What is the difference between observation and inference?
What is observation is data gathered through your senses (facts), inference is a conclusion based on the observations
100
What is the first name in the animals scientific name?
What is genus
100
What is a latent virus and an example?
What is a virus that is not active, cold sores
200
What can the rabies virus infect?
What is all sorts of different species of animals
200
What are lysosomes, nucleus, and chlorophyll?
What is lysosomes - organelles that contain digestive chemicals to break down food, nucleus - largest organelle that instructs the cell activity, chlorophyll - found in chloroplast organelle and creates energy in plants
200
If a worker digs up pieces of an old playground, is this science, why/why not?
What is No - they are not trying to Understand/Learn anything about it.
200
All organisms need what three things to survive?
What is water, food, place to live
200
Two characteristics common with all living things are 1- the length of time an organism lives and 2- they must make more of their own kind....what are the terms for each of those characteristics?
What is life span and reproduce
300
What is the immune system?
What is protects the body from diseases
300
What is the difference between smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum?
What is rough has ribosomes
300
What is an independent and dependent variable?
What is independent - variable that the scientist changes, dependent - variable that is being measured
300
What is a detailed list of identifying characteristics that scientists use to name a species called?
What is dichotomous key
300
What is homeostasis and stimuli - two other characteristics that all living things have.
What is homeostasis - internal regulation of life-maintaining processes. stimuli - things that cause change
400
What are interferons made of and what do they do for your body?
What is protein, made to protect the body from viruses
400
What does the cell membrane regulate?
What is interactions between the cell and surrounding environment, allowing things to move in and out of the cell
400
A scientist is doing an experiment on if plants need water to grow. 36-plants were given 3 cups of water every day. 3 weeks later they were all dead. Does this experiment show that the plants need water to survive? yes/no why?
What is no. a control where the plants do not receive water was not used, so there is nothing to compare the ones that did get water with.
400
What is binomial nomenclature and who came up with it?
What is two-word naming system made by Carolus Linnaeus
400
What are the parts of the eukaryotic cell on the board?
What is see the answers
500
What are the 4 steps of how a vaccine works?
What is weaken a virus to make vaccine - inject viral particles into a healthy host - the cell produces interferons that move into healthy cells - healthy cells produce protective substances that fight the virus
500
Starting with cells and leading to an organism what are the levels of cellular order? (hint - groups of similar cells make a ?)
What is cells - tissue - organs - organ system - organism
500
List the 7 steps of the scientific method in order
What is identify a problem, state a hypothesis, design an experiment, conduct an experiment, analyze data, draw conclusions, communicate data
500
Label the parts of prokaryotic cell on the board
What is see answers
500
How does a virus act in an organism (6 steps)
What is 1-attach to a host cell, 2-virus releases hereditary material into the host cell, 3 - the host cell makes viral materials, 4 - new viruses form within the host cell, 5 - the host cell bursts, 6 - new viruses are released