Cell Structure
Function of the cell membrane.
What is protecting the cell?
Who is known as the father of genetics?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
What is a common characteristic of all protists?
Every protist is a eukaryote with a membrane bound nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
What is the main function of fungi in the environment?
Fungi are decomposers?
What process do plants use to make their own food?
What is photosynthesis?
What is the nucleus?
What are the basic units of heredity called?
What are genes?
Name one type of protist that is a plant-like organism.
What is algae?
What is one pare of the mushroom called?
What is stipe, hyphae, fruiting body, gills, and cap?
Name the three main parts of a plant.
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribnucleic acid?
How do amoebas move?
Amoebas move with a psuedopod.
Name one way fungi can be beneficial to humans.
What is food?
What is the role of chlorophyll in plants?
What is changing energy from sunlight into useable energy for the plant? (Photosynthesis)
the jelly-like substance inside a cell called?
What is the cytoplasm?
What is the difference between dominant and recessive traits?
Dominant genes appear in a hybrid or purebred with two dominant alleles; whereas, recessive alleles are hidden when one dominant allele is present. Only recessive alleles will show when two recessive alleles are present.
What is the role of protists in the ecosystem?
Protists produce oxygen.
What is your favorite Christmas song?
What is the name of plants that produce cones?
What are gymnosperms?
Compare and contrast plant and animal cells in terms of structure.
What is the cell wall, vacuoles, and chloroplasts of the plant cell?
Explain what a genotype and a phenotype are.
The genotype are the letters that symbolize an organisms' alleles for a specific gene. Phenotype is the trait that an organism expresses as determined by its genotype.
This protist produces red tide.
What is Karenia brevis?
What is your favorite Christmas dessert?
Any dessert
What is the name of the plants that have flowers?
What is the angiosperms?