Cellular Organization
What is the basic unit of life found in all living organisms?
What is a cell?
Name one subsystem that helps maintain equilibrium in the body.
What is the digestive system?
What are the two main types of reproduction?
What are sexual and asexual reproduction?
What is the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy?
What is photosynthesis?
What are alleles?
What are different forms of a gene?
Describe the hierarchical organization of multicellular organisms.
What is the organization from cells to tissues to organs to systems to organisms?
How does the musculoskeletal system contribute to locomotion?
What is it provides the structure and movement for the organism?
Give one advantage of sexual reproduction.
What is increased genetic diversity?
What do plants produce during photosynthesis?
What is glucose and oxygen?
How do dominant and recessive alleles interact in offspring?
What is dominant alleles mask the effects of recessive alleles?
What process do cells undergo to produce genetically identical daughter cells?
What is mitosis?
What is the role of the nervous system in maintaining life?
What is it coordinates responses and processes sensory information?
What is a disadvantage of asexual reproduction?
What is lack of genetic variation?
Describe cellular respiration.
What is the process of converting glucose and oxygen into energy, carbon dioxide, and water?
What is the probability of inheriting a recessive trait when both parents are carriers?
What is 25%?
Define the term "multicellular organism."
What is an organism composed of multiple cells?
Explain how respiration supports life.
What is it provides oxygen for cellular processes and removes carbon dioxide?
How do behavioral adaptations affect reproductive success?
What is they can enhance mating opportunities or survival rates?
What is anaerobic respiration?
What is respiration without oxygen?
Distinguish between mitosis and meiosis.
What is mitosis produces two identical cells while meiosis produces four genetically unique cells?
How do structural changes in genes affect an organism?
What are they may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects?
Describe how excretion contributes to homeostasis.
What is it removes waste products to maintain a balanced internal environment?
Compare and contrast sexual and asexual reproduction.
What is sexual reproduction involves two parents while asexual involves one?
How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration interconnected?
What is the products of one process serve as the reactants for the other?
How can mutations impact an organism?
What is they can lead to changes in traits, which may be harmful, beneficial, or neutral?