Characteristics of Life
Themes in biology
Science as a process
Scientist
Miscellaneous
100
place in correct order from smallest to largest organ, cell, organelle, tissue, organ system
What is organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system
100
Which of the following is the hereditary material in most living things? A) DNA B) Lipids C) Oxygen D) Carbon dioxide
What is A) DNA ?
100
perceiving a natural occurrence that causes someone to pose a question
What is n observation?
100
Anton von Leeuwenhoek
Who is the first scientist to discover living cells through his reinvention of the microscope.
100
Charles Darwin
Who wrote the Origin of Species
200
An owl dilates its pupils to keep the level of light entering the eye constant
What is response to a stimulus?
200
Survival of organisms with favorable traits
What is natural selection?
200
a test of a hypothesis and its predictions
What is an experiment?
200
Robert Hook
Who is the first scientist to coin the name "cells" and to view non-living cells.
200
Lactic Acid Fermentation
What is the anaerobic reaction of the Human Body that follows Glycolysis?
300
The sum of all the chemical reactions that take place and transform energy and materials from the environment
What is metabolism?
300
Which of the following does evolution help to explain? A) how organisms reproduce B) how organisms grow and develop C) how organisms are related to each other D) how organisms obtain and metabolize energy
What is C) how organisms are related to each other
300
provides a normal standard in which the biologist can compare results of experimental group
What is the control group
300
Watson and Crick
Who are the first two to propose the composition of DNA.
300
Codominance
What is a spotted cat possibly and example of?
400
Change over time
What is evolution?
400
Helps to explain the diversity of life
What is evolution
400
What system of measurement is used in science?
What is the SI or metric system?
400
Gregor Mendel
Who is considered the Father of Genetics
400
Factors
What is the name given to alleles by Gregor Mendel himself?
500
tiny substances that carry out many of the functions of life but are not considered living
What are viruses?
500
Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria
What are the domains?
500
eyepiece, objective lens, stage, light source
What are the four major parts of a light microscope?
500
Louis Pasteur
Who is the scientist who provided the first irrefutable evidence against the currently accepted theory of spontaneous generation
500
Histone
What are known as DNA-bound proteins that assist in the process of DNA replication