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38 Cards in this Set
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What are the steps of the scientific method? |
State the problem gather information form a hypothesis perform an experiment analyze data draw conclusions |
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What is a prediction that can be tested? |
Hypothesis. |
An educated guess |
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A logical answer to a question based on data and observation is? |
Conclusion. |
The summary of the experiment |
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Collecting information prior to you do an experiment is? |
Research. |
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What are the results from experiment and the charting of the information in an organized manner? |
Data. |
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Tell which SI units you would use to measure each of the following. height: Mass: distance: amount of liquid: |
Meters gram kilometers liters |
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Which two parts belongs to a plant cell and not an animal cell? |
A. cell wall B. chloroplast |
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Which parts of the cell controls the activity that occurs within the cell? |
Nucleus. |
The boss |
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Describe how one cell grows to become an organism. |
Cell > tissue > organ > organ system > organism |
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Organic organic compounds contain __________ and ___________. |
Hydrogen ... carbon |
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What are the four organic compounds that make up all living things? |
Carbohydrates lipids proteins nucleic acids |
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What is the difference between passive transport and active transport? |
Passive transport is the movement of substances through a cell membrane without the use of cellular energy ; active transport is energy requiring process in which transport proteins bind with particles and move them through a cell membrane. |
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Describe what it means to be selectively permeable. |
A membrane that allows certain substances to pass through it. |
Example: window screen |
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Define diffusion. |
Random movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. |
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Define equilibrium. |
Molecules continue to move from one area to another until molecules are equal. |
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Define osmosis. |
The diffusion of water through a cell membrane. |
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All chemical reactions in an organism is? |
Metabolism. |
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Producer: |
Make their own food. |
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Consumers: |
Organisms that can't make their own food. |
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Photosynthesis takes in __________ and __________ but releases ________ and __________. |
Carbon dioxide Water/sunlight Sugar (C6 H12 O6 ) Oxygen |
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What does respiration break down eventually releasing energy? |
Oxygen and food molecules. |
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What organism photosynthesizes? |
Plants. |
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What organisms use respiration to release energy? |
All living things. |
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What is mitosis? |
The process in which the nucleus divides to form two identical nuclei. |
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Which cell divide by mitosis? |
Body cells. |
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What is asexual reproduction? |
A type of reproduction in which a new organism is produced from one parent and has DNA identical to the parent organism. |
Fission, budding, and regeneration |
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In a sexual reproduction the new organism is __________ to the hereditary material of the parent. |
Identical |
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Bacteria reproduces asexually by ____________ where it is copied and divided |
Fission |
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__________ is a reproductionprocess in which a new organism grows from the body of the parent organism. |
Budding. |
Example: Hydra |
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_________ is a reproduction process that uses cell division to regrow body parts. |
Regeneration. |
Example:starfish. |
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What is sexual reproduction? |
2 sex cells sometimes called an egg and sperm come together to create offspring. |
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What is the passing of traits from parent to offspring called? |
Hereditary. |
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The different forms of a trait that a gene may have is? |
Alleles. |
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What tool is used to show all the ways to alleles can combine? |
Punnett square. |
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What is the stronger gene? |
Dominant. |
Covers up the recessive gene. |
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What type of gene seems to disappear? |
Recessive. |
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What is an organism with two different alleles? |
Heterozygous. |
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An organism with two same alleles? |
Homozygous. |
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