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1 - Nature of Science
2 - Biochemistry
3 - Cells & Energetics
4 - Cell Division & Heredity
5 - Heredity & Evolution
100
A hypothesis is often referred to as this.
What is an educated guess?
100
The heirarchy of life (or levels or organization) begins with this and ends with biosphere.
What is a cell?
100
This is the shape of an animal cell.
What is round?
100
This is known as the division of the cell nucleus.
What is mitosis?
100
This man is referred to as the father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
All scientific experimentation starts with this.
What is an observation of the natural world?
200
If a liquid has a pH of 3.2, it is this.
What is and acid?
200
These are used to make proteins and are often attached to the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
What are ribosomes?
200
During this phase of mitosis, chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
What is metaphase?
200
This law states that gametes separate or segregate during meiosis.
What is the law of segregation?
300
You graph this variable on the x-axis.
What is the independent variable?
300
Name one example of a lipid.
What are fats, waxes or oils?
300
These organelles are present in plant cells, but not in animal cells.
What are chloroplasts and cell walls?
300
Name one of the three things that make up an RNA nucleotide.
What is a sugar, phosphate group, or nitrogen base?
300
This refers to a trait in which both genes are dominant.
What is co-dominance?
400
This is an example of a scientific law.
What is Newton's Law of Gravity?
400
The function of this type of molecule is to make complex molecules smaller.
What is an enzyme?
400
The citric acid or Kreb's cycle occurs in this organelle.
What is mitochondria?
400
Name all FOUR bases found in RNA
What are C, U, A, and G? (cytosine, uracil, adenosine, guanine)
400
Trisomy is when there are three chromosomes associated with a pair in a karyotype. This is an example of trisomy.
What is Down Syndrome, Turner Syndrome, or Klinefelter's Syndrome?
500
Scientific testing must have this type of review before being accepted and published in scientific journals.
What is peer review?
500
This organic substance carries the genetic code for traits and proteins.
What are nucleic acids? (DNA/RNA)
500
This is the energy used during cellular respiration.
What is ATP?
500
This is the part of the cell where translation occurs.
What is the cytoplasm at the ribosome?
500
This term refers to a bone formations that is similar in structure, but different in function.
What are homologous structures?