Biology: The Science of Life Questions and
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Biology - ✅✅The science of life
Organism - ✅✅A living thing
Autotroph - ✅✅Organisms that acquire energy by making their own food
Heterotroph - ✅✅Organisms that acquire energy by eating other organisms
Bioethics - ✅✅Application of ethics to biological concerns
Hypothesis - ✅✅Possible explanation in the form of a testable statement
Theory - ✅✅Most probable explanation for a set of data based on the best available evidence
Scientific Methods - ✅✅Combination of processes that allow scientists to organize, discuss, and make
conjectures
Microscope - ✅✅Instrument that can form an enlarged image of an object
Resolution - ✅✅Power of a microscope to show detail clearly
Atom - ✅✅Fundamental unit of matter
Isotope - ✅✅Atoms of the same element that differ in the number of neutrons they contain
, Acid - ✅✅Substance with pH scale 0 - 6.9, sour taste, can be corrosive
Base - ✅✅Substance with pH scale 7.1 - 14, bitter taste, feel slippery
pH scale - ✅✅Ranks solutions based on acidity or basicness, ranges from 0 to 14
Lipid - ✅✅Fatty compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Protein - ✅✅Organic compound of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
Amino acid - ✅✅Building blocks of life, 20 total
Carbohydrate - ✅✅Organic compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Catalyst - ✅✅Something that speeds up a reaction
Cell - ✅✅Smallest unit that can carry on all processes of life, building blocks of life
Prokaryote - ✅✅Cells that lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
Eukaryote - ✅✅Cells that have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
Organelle - ✅✅Cell component that performs specific functions in the cell, little organ
Cell membrane - ✅✅Structure that separates the cell from its external environment
Homeostasis - ✅✅Biological balance; cells maintain this by controlling and regulating what comes in
to and out of the cell
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Biology - ✅✅The science of life
Organism - ✅✅A living thing
Autotroph - ✅✅Organisms that acquire energy by making their own food
Heterotroph - ✅✅Organisms that acquire energy by eating other organisms
Bioethics - ✅✅Application of ethics to biological concerns
Hypothesis - ✅✅Possible explanation in the form of a testable statement
Theory - ✅✅Most probable explanation for a set of data based on the best available evidence
Scientific Methods - ✅✅Combination of processes that allow scientists to organize, discuss, and make
conjectures
Microscope - ✅✅Instrument that can form an enlarged image of an object
Resolution - ✅✅Power of a microscope to show detail clearly
Atom - ✅✅Fundamental unit of matter
Isotope - ✅✅Atoms of the same element that differ in the number of neutrons they contain
, Acid - ✅✅Substance with pH scale 0 - 6.9, sour taste, can be corrosive
Base - ✅✅Substance with pH scale 7.1 - 14, bitter taste, feel slippery
pH scale - ✅✅Ranks solutions based on acidity or basicness, ranges from 0 to 14
Lipid - ✅✅Fatty compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Protein - ✅✅Organic compound of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
Amino acid - ✅✅Building blocks of life, 20 total
Carbohydrate - ✅✅Organic compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Catalyst - ✅✅Something that speeds up a reaction
Cell - ✅✅Smallest unit that can carry on all processes of life, building blocks of life
Prokaryote - ✅✅Cells that lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
Eukaryote - ✅✅Cells that have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
Organelle - ✅✅Cell component that performs specific functions in the cell, little organ
Cell membrane - ✅✅Structure that separates the cell from its external environment
Homeostasis - ✅✅Biological balance; cells maintain this by controlling and regulating what comes in
to and out of the cell
