Definitions
Biology is the study of...
What is life?
A tick feeding on a human
The primary producers in a grassland ecosystem.
What are grasses?
This element is found in proteins, but not lipids or carbohydrates.
What is nitrogen?
What is the golgi body (apparatus)?
The specific physical location in which a species lives
What is habitat?
The relationship between flowering plants and the bees that pollinate them
What is mutualism?
The ultimate original source of energy for all living things on Earth.
What is the sun?
A hydrogen bond forms between the hydrogren atoms of one water molecule and this atom of another water molecule.
What is oxygen?
This organelle is the site of protein synthesis.
A group of organisms of different species living together in a particular place
What is a community?
Cattle egrets are birds that mostly feed on insects that have been disturbed by grazing cattle. The cattle are neither helped nor harmed by the presence of the egrets.
What is commensalism?
Organisms that consume other organisms for energy
What are heterotrophs (consumers)?
Without enzymes, the chemical reactions in the body would...
What is occur too slowly to support life's functions?
A particularly active cell may contain large amounts of this organelle.
What is the mitochondria?
The study of interactions among organisms in relation to their environment
What is Ecology?
Organisms with overlapping niches would most likely have this type symbiotic relationship
What is competitive?
An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste.
What is a decomposer?
Which property of water is responsible for the fact that water and oil do not mix?
What is polarity?
This organelle stores water and nutrients.
What is the vacuole?
Internal balance
Some birds are known as honeyguides because they may be followed by humans to wild beehives. When the humans take honey from the hives, the birds are able to feast on the honey and bees, too.
What is mutualism?
What is predation?
These are examples of nucleic acids.
What are DNA + RNA?
This organelle is the site of photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?