Unit 1
A tool that a scientists would use to view small objects.
What is a Microscope?
The capacity of a physical system to perform work.
What is energy?
The part of the cell cycle in which the cell divides to become two cells.
What is Cell Division?
Genetic makeup of an organism, as determined by its alleles.
What is a genotype?
Behaviors or activities performed by an organism that increase its fitness.
What are Behavioral Adaptations?
A testable statement.
What is a Hypothesis?
Plants are able to transform sunlight and use it to build sugar.
What does photosynthesis do?
The production of offspring from a single parent.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
A diagram used to show possible genotypes that can result from a cross.
What is a Punnet Square?
Anatomical features that increase an organism's fitness.
What are physical Adaptations?
The smallest basic unit of a chemical element.
What is an atom?
A structure found in cells that contains DNA.
What are chromosomes?
A machine-like molecule that can carry out specific functions in a cell.
What is a Protein?
A molecule that reflects only certain colors of light and absorbs the rest.
What is a Pigment?
A balanced and stable environment within cells and organisms.
What is homeostasis?