Scientific Methods
Characteristics of Living Things
Cell Biology
DNA
Immune System
100
The process of thinking like a scientist.
What is scientific reasoning?
100
An example of something that shows all the characteristics of life.
What is an animal, plant, fungus, bacteria, human etc.?
100
This organism lacks a cell membrane, nucleus and mitochondria. It remains unicellular.
What is a prokaryote?
100
The name of the spiral staircase shape that DNA forms into.
What is a double helix?
100
A term for an agent of infectious disease.
What is a pathogen?
200
Name of the scientific methods.
What is Hypothesis, Procedure, Experiment etc.?
200
This characteristic of life can be either asexual or sexual. It allows living things to replicate and make more of themselves.
What is reproduction?
200
This organism stores it's genetic information inside a nucleus and can reproduce using mitosis or meiosis.
What is a eukaryote?
200
These are the four base pairs of DNA.
What is Adenine, Guanine, Thymine and Cytosine?
200
When a bacteria becomes resistant to the effects of medicine.
What is antibiotic resistance?
300
A prediction to a scientific question that is framed in an If/Then/Because statement.
What is an experiment?
300
This particular type of pathogen can infect you but does not exhibit all the characteristics of life.
What is a virus?
300
This organelle stores protein which is necessary in transporting messages across the cell.
What is the ribosome?
300
The DNA structure was discovered from this famous scientist thanks to the help of an X-Ray photograph.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
300
The name of the major body system responsible for the bodies immune response.
What is the lymphatic system?
400
This scientific variable remains constant throughout the experiment.
What is the control or constant variable?
400
This characteristic of life defines the evolutionary process. allows populations of organisms to change over time because of mutations in their DNA.
What is adaptation?
400
Bacteria use this process to reproduce asexually.
What is binary fission?
400
When mRNA makes a mistake in the transcription process.
What is a mutation?
400
Name one organ involved with the immune system.
What is the tonsils, appendix, lymph nodes etc.?
500
The basis of your experiment where you determine if your hypothesis was supported or not supported by the data.
What is the conclusion?
500
This characteristic of life defines the balance of the body systems and our health.
What is homeostasis?
500
All of the organelles of the cell are stored in this structure.
What is the cytoplasm?
500
The base pairs of DNA are held together by this kind of bond.
What is a Hydrogen Bond?
500
Antibiotic derived from fungus used to fight off bacterial infections.
What is Penicillin?