Microscope Madness
An organism that can be seen by the unaided eye.
What is macroscopic?
This central portion of the cell is responsible for regulating all cell activities.
What is the nucleus?
This is a general term for the “little organs” in a cell.
What are the organelles?
This is the scientific study of heredity.
What is genetics?
When the alleles for a trait are different.
What is heterozygous?
An organism that cannot be seen with the unaided eye.
What is microscopic?
This jelly-like substance is the largest portion of the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
This gives structure to plant cells.
What is the cell wall?
Type of reproduction which involves only one parent organism.
What is asexual?
These cells contain one copy of each gene.
What is a gamete?
This is the lens of a microscope through which the image is viewed.
What is the eyepiece?
This surrounds and protects the other parts of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This is a structure in the cell of green plants where photosynthesis occurs.
What is a chloroplast?
This substance stores the information that determines the genetic traits of an organism.
What is DNA? (Acceptable - deoxyribonucleic acid)
The physical appearance that results from the alleles an organism inherits.
What is phenotype?
The slide is placed on this part of the microscope.
What is the stage?
These organelles perform photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
This principle of biology states that all living things are made of cells and that all cells come from preexisting cells.
What is cell theory?
A family tree that includes information on a genetic trait being studied.
What is a pedigree chart?
The actual combination of alleles an organism inherited.
What is a genotype?
This structure of the microscope affects the amount of light that passes through the slide.
What is the diaphragm?
This stores food materials within a cell.
What are vacuoles?
This scientist discovered cork cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
A fertilized egg cell.
What is a zygote?
This is the process that occurs when a ribosome “reads” RNA to make a protein.
What is translation?