Scientific Method
Levels of Org.
Char. of Life
Biomolecules
Origins of Life
100

A prediction of the relationship between 2 variables.

What is a hypothesis?

100
The smallest functional unit of life
What is a cell?


100
The ability to change location in your environment.

What is movement?

100

Used for cellular structures, antibodies and enzimes.

What are proteins?

100

"The greek titan Prometheus made humans out of clay"

What is creationism?

200

A variable that does not change in between experimental groups.

What is a control variable?

200

A group of bears living on a mountain.

What is a population?
200

The ability to maintain certain parameters like salinity and pH within normal levels.

What is homeostasis?

200
Several monomers put together.

What is a polymer?

200

Life generating spontaneously out of non living matter.

What is Abiogenesis?

300

A variable that you change during an experiment

What is an independent variable?

300

A group of tissues interacting together.

What is an organ?

300

The characteristic of a live organisms species to change physical and genetic characteristics over generations.

What is evolution?

300
Ear wax is a this type of biomolecule

What are lipids?


300
Meaning of panspermia
what is that life came to Earth on a meteor?
400
A variable that is measured during the experiment

What is a dependent variable?


400
Salt, Oxygen, Glucose.

What are molecules?

400

The complete set of chemical reactions an organism is capable of doing.

What is metabolism?

400
2 types of nucleic acid polymers.

What are RNA and DNA?

400

Theory that states substances found in Earths early atmosphere gave rise to biomolecules when exposed to heat and electricity.

What is the physicochemical or biogenic theory?

500

In an experiment where we try to observe if drinking coffee makes you run faster, this is the dependant variable.

What is the running speed?

500
Several groups of different organisms living in the same space.
What is a community?
500

This characteristic of living organisms involves the passing on of genetic information to new generations.

What is reproduction?

500

A molecule made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

What is a carbohydrate?

500

Name of the two scientists who did an experiment validating the "Primordial soup" or physico-chemical theory?

Who are Miller and Urey?