This type of trait can be passed down from parent to child. Examples include hair color, eye color, and the ability to roll your tongue.
What is an inherited trait?
100
These two words are the two reasons that cells divide and multiply.
What are growth and reproduction?
100
This is the basic unit of structure and function of all life.
What is a cell?
200
This organelle is only found in plants. It helps the plant make food.
What is a chloroplast?
200
This type of trait will show up in an offspring if either parent passes it on. Examples include dimples and curly hair.
What is a dominant trait.
200
This process produces cells with the same number of chromosomes as the original. The daughter cells are exact copies.
What is mitosis?
200
This organelle releases energy the cell uses to do its job.
What is mitochondria?
300
This outer layer of a cell protects the cell from its surroundings.
What is the cell membrane?
300
This type of trait will show up in an offspring only if BOTH parent pass it on. Examples include blue eyes, no freckles, and short pea plants.
What is a recessive trait?
300
This process produces cells with half the number of chromosomes as the original. The daughter cells are different.
What is meiosis?
300
This stiff surrounding of a PLANT cell gives the cell structure and controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is a cell wall?
400
This jellylike substance holds the organelles in place.
What is the cytoplasm?
400
This material is stored inside the nucleus. It stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, and it is responsible for telling our cells all kinds of things about us.
What is DNA?
400
This term refers to new cells created by cell division.
What is a daughter cell?
400
These threadlike strands inside the nucleus are made up of DNA. There are 46 of them, or 23 pairs, in every cell.
What are chromosomes?
500
This organelle is larger in plant cells than in animal cells. It acts as a storage space.
What is a vacuole?
500
This basic unit of heredity is made up of DNA. Each of these units is located on a specific chromosome and is responsible for a specific trait.
What is a gene?
500
If a cell went through the process of cell division 4 times, there would be this many daughter cells. Hint: Each time a cell goes through cell division, there are double the number of cells.
What is 8?
500
This thin surrounding of both plant and animal cells holds the parts of the cell together and separates the cell from its surroundings.