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52 Cards in this Set
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the salt used to dehydrate and preserve meat is_______
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osmosis
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chromosomes are mad of _____ and ______
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protein and dna
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2 dies have 6 faces and you have a ______chance of rolling 2 4's in a row.
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1/36
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the part of the cell that manufactures lipids is the ________
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Cell membrane
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a part of the golgi complex that pinches off to form a _______ that contains digestive enzymes.
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lysisome
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describe 2 functions of a cell wall.
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It protects the cell and makes is firm.
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The ________ produces ATP that is used by ribosomes to make proteins which pass into the interior of the ________ and then to the ________ for processing.
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Mitochondria
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an insect is 3g after all the water is removed from it. What is the original bodyweight? (The water content is 70% of the body weight.)
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10 g
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phospholipids look like this
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O
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The Scientific Method usually begins with _______
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Observations.
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Observations lead to forming a hypothesis which includes a ______ that is tested in experiments
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variable
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______ is the amount of space something occupies.
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volume
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________is a use of knowledge, tools, and materials to solve problems and accomplish tasks.
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technology
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When researchers use the scientific method, they should_______
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repeat or switch the order of steps as needed
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A scientist who wants to study the possible side effects of a new medicine should _____
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include a control group that recieved no medicine.
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Which tool whould a life scientist use to obtain a detailed image of the nerves that branch off a person's spinal courd
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an MRI
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A life scientist would use a _____ to magnify a living specimen.
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Compound Light Microscope.
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In a scientific experiment, a hypothesis that can not be tested is always considered ______
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not useful
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What is the purpose of the control group in a controlled experiment?
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a controll group doesn't need a variable and tells researchers what is the normal part of the experiment.
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_____Is sometimes called the blueprint of life.
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Nucleic acids.
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a stimilus is a what?
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something that causes a reaction
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Cells do not use _____ for energy storage
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Nucleic acids
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Phenotype is ____ and Genotype is _______
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physical makeup, and gen type
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Kingdom, _____, class, order, family, genus, species. are the ______
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Phyla, seven levels of classeification
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bacteria that live in hot springs are ______
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archae bacteria.
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normal bacteria are _______
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eubacteria
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the 2 parts of a scientific name are ______ and _______
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genus, and then species
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complex multicellular organisms are _______
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animalia
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organisms that decompose the nutrients around them for energy using their digestive juices are _______
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fungi
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organisms that use photosynthesis to produce their own food are ______
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plantae
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a pedigree does this...
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shows the family tree and different generations of certain traits.
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a ______ can be a simple multicellular or a single celled organism
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protista
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______microscopes can not view a living specimen without killing it.
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electron
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a ________ is plant and animal cells.
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Eukaryotic cell
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a bacteria cell is a ________
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Prokaryotic.
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for hereditary diseases, The disease needs to effect the ______ cells
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sex
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________is the process or your body trying to keep everything going and normal
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homeostasis
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______is the passing of traits from one generation to another
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heredity
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a _______is something that causes a reaction in homeostasis
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stimuli
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_______is the passing of the chemical activities that an organism's cells perform
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metabolism
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a hypothesis is a ________
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possible explanation or an educated guess.
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a producer ________
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makes their own food and is at the bottom of the food chain
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a primary consumer _____
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eats producers
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a secondary consumer ______
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eats other consumers
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a decomposer ______
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eats dead consumers and producers
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_______is the process of water in some form coming down to earth
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percipitation
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_____is the process of water turning into a vapor
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evaporation
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_______is the process of water collecting on dust particles to form clouds
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condensation
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_____is water in the form of a gas.
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water vapor
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A substitution in the nucleotide bases is a ______
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switch in the nucleotide bases
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a deletion in the nucleotide bases is ______
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when one of the bases is deleted
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a insertion in the nucleotide bases is _____
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when a base is added
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