Controlled Experiments
Cells
Microbiology
Chemistry
Misc.
100
The single variable manipulated by the experimenter.
What is an independent variable?
100
Specialized structures that work together inside of a cell.
What are organelles?
100
This pathogen can only replicate inside the living cells of an organism.
What is a virus?
100
Fatty acids make up this macromolecule.
What is a lipid?
100
A substance with a pH of 3.
What is an acid?
200
The responding factor that is measured by an experimenter.
What is the dependent variable?
200
The organelle responsible for protein synthesis.
What is a ribosome?
200
A virus that infects and replicates within bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
200
A carbohydrate made of two sugar units.
What is a disaccharide?
200
These 2 subatomic particles make up the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons and electrons?
300
The group that receives no experimental treatment.
What is the control group?
300
The organelle responsible for releasing digestive enzymes to break down waste products in a cell.
What is a lysosome?
300
This type of bacterial cell wall stains violet because of all the peptidoglycan.
What is a gram + cell wall?
300
The property that results from like molecules sticking together.
What is cohesion?
300
The reactant(s) an enzyme acts upon.
What is a substrate?
400
Variables that are purposefully not changed by the experimenter and influence the outcome of the experiment.
What are constants?
400
The model scientists developed to describe the cell membrane.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
400
An infectious protein that is too small for the immune system to recognize.
What is a prion?
400
This is formed when two atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
400
The net movement of solvent molecules through a semi-permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration.
What is osmosis?
500
A suggestion that one variable influences another.
What is a hypothesis?
500
The process of engulfing large molecules into a cell forming a membrane bound sac.
What is endocytosis?
500
This type of viral infection destroys the host cell.
What is a lytic infection?
500
The enzyme that synthesizes DNA molecules.
What is DNA polymerase?
500
This type of ion forms when an atom loses electrons.
What is a positive ion?