Basic Biology Principles
Cell Growth and Reproduction
Genetics
Homeostatis and Transport
Misc
100
The scientific study of life.
What is Biology
100
The total surroundings of an organism or group of organisms.
What is Environment
100
A variation of a gene's nucleotide sequence (an alternative form of a gene).
What is Allele
100
The movement of particles from an area of low concentration to an area of high concentration that uses energy provided by ATP or a difference in electrical charges across a cell membrane.
What is Active Transport
100
The temperature at which liquid changes state to a solid.
What is Freezing point
200
The smallest unit of an element that retains the chemical and physical properties of that element.
What is Atom
200
The process in which DNA makes a duplicate copy of itself.
What is DNA Replication
200
A molecule that provides energy for cellular reactions and processes.
What is Adenosine Triphosphate or (ATP)
200
Proteins embedded in the plasma membrane involved in the movement of ions, small molecules, and macromolecules into and out of cells.
What is Carrier (Transport) Proteins
200
An anatomical unit composed of tissues serving a common function.
What is Organ
300
The basic unit of structure and function for all living organisms.
What is Cell
300
A sequence of nucleotides composing a segment of DNA that provides a blueprint for a specific hereditary trait.
What is Gene
300
The process in which a nucleotide sequence of a gene is used to make a functional product such as protein or RNA.
What is Gene Expression
300
The transportion of materials across a plasma membrane without using energy.
What is Passive Transport
300
An anatomical unit composed of cells organized to preform a similar function.
What is Tissue
400
An organelle found in plant cells and the cells of other eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms where photosynthesis occurs.
What is Choloroplast
400
A specialized cell (egg or sperm) used in sexual reproduction containing half the normal number of chromosomes of a somatic cell.
What is Gamete
400
The process in which sister chromatids fail to separate during and after mitosis or meiosis.
What is Nondisjunction
400
Any of several molecular mechanisms in which ions or molcules are transported across a celluar membrane requiring the use of an energy source (e.g., glurcose, sodium [Na+], calcium [Ca+], and potassium [K+1]).
What is Pumps (Ion or Molecular)
400
The measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval.
What is Specific Heat
500
A substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (e.g., lower temperature) than otherwise possible without being changed by the reaction.
What is Catalyst
500
The process in which a strand of messenger RNA (mRNA) is synthesized by using the genetic information found on a strand DNA as a template.
What is Transcription
500
The process in which the DNA molecule uncoils and separates into two strands. Each original strand becomes a template on which a new strand constructed, resulting in two DNA molecules identical to the original DNA molecule.
What is Semiconservative Replication
500
The measure of acidity or alkalinity (basicity) of an aqueous solution scaling from 1 (highly acidic) to 14 (highly alkaline) with a midpoint of 7 (neutral).
What is pH
500
The branch of zoology studying early development of living things.
What is Embryology