What is Science?
What type of data is being collected by using a ruler to measure height?
Quantitative
What is the smallest unit of life?
Cell
The attraction between molecules of the same substance.
Cohesion
This structure is made of many repeating units.
Polymer
Which side of a chemical reaction equation are the reactants?
Left
For the research question - Do tomatoes grow fastest under fluorescent, incandescent, or natural light? - what is the dependent variable?
Growth of the plant
The process in which one parent divides to form 2 organisms.
Asexual reproduction
What type of chemical bond is responsible for water's special properties?
Hydrogen bond
The monomer of a carbohydrate.
Monosaccharide
Something that lowers the activation energy of a reaction.
Catalyst or Enzyme
For the research question - Do tomatoes grow fastest under fluorescent, incandescent, or natural light? - what is the independent variable?
Type of lighting
The process of increasing in number or size of cells.
Growth
How does Nitrogen form the ion N3- ?
Gains 3 electrons
The monomer of proteins.
Amino acids
The amount of energy needed to start a reaction.
Activation energy
What is being controlled in a controlled experiment?
All variables other than the independent/dependent.
Something that causes an organism to react.
Stimulus
How many neutrons does the isotope Carbon-15 have?
9
This biomolecule is responsible for storing and transmitting genes
Nucleic acids
What happens to chemical bonds during a chemical reaction?
Broken and reformed
The process of having other scientists and researchers in the same field read and critique the research being published.
Peer review
A stable internal environment.
Homeostasis
# of electrons being shared
This biomolecule is made of a glycerol and three carbon chains.
Lipid
The reactants that bind to an enzyme during an enzyme-catalyzed reaction.