Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
100
a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring sharing characteristics
What is a gene?
100
is an organism whose genome has been altered by the techniques of genetic engineering
What is GMO?
100
refers to the entire set of genes in a cell, an organism or an individual
What is genotype?
100
an organelle that takes up and processes products from the endoplamic reticulum and then either releases or secretes to the outside of the cell
What is a golgi body?
100
the force that keeps us on earth
What is gravity?
200
these winds are named by the direction in which they blows; the globe is encircled by six major wind belts
What is global wind?
200
a graph showing the magnitude plotted against the surface temperature for a group of stars
What is a HR diagram?
200
an idea or explanation that you test through experiment or study
What is a hypothesis?
200
the natural home or environment of an living organism
What is a habitat?
200
an animal that eats plants
What is a herbivore?
300
the passing on of a physical or mental characteristic genetically from on generation to another
What is heredity?
300
a state of balance in the body
What is homeostasis?
300
two chromosomes one of paternal and another of maternal origin, that are identical in appearance
What are homologous chromosomes?
300
a substance produced in an organism and transported in tissue fluids such as blood
What is a hormone?
300
this system protects the body from foreign substances, cells, and tissues
What is the immune system?
400
in which one allele for a specific trait in not completely expressed over its paired allele
What is an incomplete dominance?
400
a variable that is not dependent
What is an independent variable?
400
the dependence of two or more people or things on each other
What is Interdependence?
400
the property of matter in which its state at rest or its velocity along a straight line
What is inertia?
400
strong generally winds concentrated in a narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the earth
What are jet streams?
500
a law of science that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed
What is Law of Conservation of Energy?
500
states that mass in an isolated system is neither created or destroyed by chemical or physical reactions
What is Law of Conservation Of Mass?
500
a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year
What is a light- year?
500
this outer layer of earth consists of the crust and upper mantle
What is lithosphere?
500
the brightness of a celestial object
What is luminosity?