What is Life Science?
A scientific test of a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
The part of a neuron that extends from the cell body and relays nerve impulses to other neutrons.
What is an axon?
A structure of wound-up DNA.
An organism that makes its own food, such as by photosynthesis; a producer.
What is an autotroph?
A statement, supported by a lot of scientific evidence, that is correct so far as we know.
What is a scientific fact?
An organelle that absorbs light energy and converts it to chemical energy for the manufacture of food during photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
The region of the skeletal system that is composed of the bones of the upper and lower limbs, the shoulders, and the hips.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
One of the forms of a gene for a single trait.
What is an allele?
The process of burning.
What is combustion?
The way things really are.
What is the truth?
One of the 118 different types of atoms of which all matter is composed; a substance composed of atoms with the same atomic number.
What is an element?
The process of mechanically and chemically breaking down food to enable absorption of nutrients.
What is digestion?
A form of asexual reproduction in which a sponge reproduces
What is budding?
The making, breaking, or rearranging of the chemical bonds between atoms.
A representation or explanation.
What is a mental model?
An organelle made of protein and RNA that assemble protein from amino acids.
What is a ribosome?
Tissue that binds and supports body parts.
What is connective tissue?
An organism still in the womb, egg, or seed, and not yet born, hatched or germinated.
What is an embryo?
Internal cellular respiration that does not require oxygen, used in baking sometimes.
What is fermentation?
The Revelation of truth in the Bible, God’s Word
What is a Special Revelation?
A protein that directs cells to perform specific tasks.
What is a hormone?
The process by which living organisms extract energy from food using oxygen and release carbon dioxide and water as byproducts.
What is respiration?
An observable physical characteristic that is carried by genes and inherited by offspring.
What is a genetic trait?
The part of a plant that is usually underground. It anchors the plant in the soil, absorbs nutrients dissolved in water, and stores food.
What is the root system?