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A vaccine contains...
a small amount of the pathogen that is weakened or dead
Disease-causing microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
pathogen
Which substance is an inorganic molecule?
Water
The technique used to separate the DNA for analysis is
electrophoresis
This part of the experiment serves as a basis of comparison; the one variable being tested has been omitted.
control group
A __________ includes all living and non-living things in an environment.
ecosystem
Which group do fungi, bacteria, and termites belong to?
decomposers
Which organism make their own food through the process of photosynthesis?
producer
the process by which a new community forms where no community lived before
primary succession
An error in DNA copying that results in a new trait
Mutation
Which process must first take place in order for the proteins in foods to be used by body cells?
digestion
Which two systems work together to maintain homeostasis while transporting oxygen throughout the body and removing carbon dioxide?
circulatory and respiratory
Where does protein synthesis occur in the cell?
Ribosome
What process makes substances move with the concentration gradient?
(Make no confusion it must be _____. which way does it go? From high to low)
Diffusion
How is the control group treated differently than the experimental group?
The control group does not get the variable
Put the following in order of increasing: centimeter, millimeter, meter, micrometer.
Micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, meter
What term describes the sum of all life functions?
Metabolism
What life function is defined by control and coordination?
Regulation
What is needed to make experimental results valid?
Do multiple tests
Have a large sample size
Multi-cellular organisms use organs to carry out life functions.
What do unicellular organisms use?
Organelles
What direction does a microscope turn the object you are viewing?
Upside down and backwards
Chromosome mutations can usually be seen in the __________.
Phenotype
A section of DNA on a chromosome makes up a ____________.
Gene
Convert 8.6 cm to millimeters
86 mm
Convert 3.5 cm to mm.
3.5 cm = ___ mm
35mm