Life Science - 1
What is Mr. A's favorite animal?
What is a Snake?
When two organisms are fighting for limited resource?
What is competition?
What controls everything in a cell?
What is the nucleus?
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
Hint--remember that "bio" means living, this is part of your answer
What is biotic?
The balance maintained in living things to keep them alive
What is homeostasis (cellular equilibrium)?
What is the study of organisms and their ecosystem called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of mutation that stays with you but can't be passed down to offspring.
What is somatic mutation?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
What is the shape of a DNA strand called?
What is a double helix??
Number of chromosomes in each human cell
HH, LL, AA, and TT are all examples of what type of genotypes?
What are purebred (homozygous) dominant genotypes?
What is the largest organ in your body?
What is your skin?
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
An alteration to the genetic code
What is a mutation?
This scientist is famous for studying organisms in the Galapagos Islands and for his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Who is the scientist who believed that acquired traits could be passed down to offspring?
Who is Lamarck?
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
4 nitrogenous bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
The human body system that involves the heart, blood, veins, and arteries
What is the Cardiovascular system?
What is osmosis?
Father of Genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
DNA stands for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is a trait?
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
The passing of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
What is the name of the 3 letter code on mRNA?
What is Codon?
The term that evolutionary biologists use means organisms change to different organisms quickly and in a burst of time (we don't believe)
What is punctuated equilibrium?