ZAP Game – Vocabulary Definitions
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The organized way that scientists solve problems, consists of very specific steps
an “educated” guess, or one which occurs after researching
factor being tested
experiment without the variable ( used to compare experimental data to)
what happened during the experiment that was seen, smelled, tasted, felt, or heard
recorded measurements of changes that occurred during the experiment
charts the represent data neatly and clearly
bar graph, line graph, pie graph, or whatever kind of graph would properly represent the data
most logical explanation about events that occur in nature. It has been tested repeatedly
if a theory holds up after a long time
Life forms can arise spontaneously from non-living matter.
Living things can only come from other living things
All living things are made up of cells, Cells are the smallest units of an organism that can be
considered alive, cells come from other pre-existing cells
production of new organisms
reproduction with 2 parents
reproduction with 1 parent
their energy from the sun and make their own food
process of keeping internal conditions stable
form of energy used in our cells
used to detect simple carbohydrates (sugars)
used to detect complex carbohydrates (starches)
water fearing
water loving
monomer of a protein
proteins that speed up a reaction, lower the activation energy
used to detect protein
The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their
environment
The largest level of organization of the living world
Group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring
Groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
Groups of different populations of different species that live together in a defined are
Collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving
environment
Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight and use that energy to produce food
Process in which autotrophs use light energy to power chemical reactions that convert carbon
dioxide and water into food oxygen
Organisms that cannot harness energy directly from the environment
consumers that eat only plants
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consumers that eat only meat
consumers that eat both plants and animals
break down organic matter
A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
A network of complex interactions that shows the feeding relationship among the various
organisms in an ecosystem
2 species living in a close long term relationship
one specie lives in or on another specie and harms it
one specie benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
both species are benefitted
one specie consumes the other
construction of cell membrane, 2 layers of phospholipids
transport of substances through the membrane without using energy
movement of solute
movement of water
transport of substances through the membrane that requires energy
brings big things in to cell
brings big things out of cell
jelly like substance found in cells
double membrane around nucleus
storage of food or waste or water
carries out cellular respiration, makes ATP for the cell
package molecules to be moved to other parts of the cell
fibers made of ball shaped protein called actin connected in long strings that help the cell to
move organelles
small hair like structures made of microtubules; aid in movement of some cells
long, tail like structures made of microtubules; aid in movement of some cells
rigid structure outside cell membrane
carries out photosynthesis
usually bacterial cells with no membrane bound organelles
membrane bound organelles with distinct nucleus
a difference in the concentration of a substance across a membrane
the area (inside or outside the cell) that has a LOWER concentration of solute
the area that has a HIGHER concentration of solute
the areas are in equilibrium
The part of a cell’s life cycle when the cell divides it nuclear contents into 2 nuclei which are
identical
The part of a cell’s life cycle when the cytoplasm divides into 2 cells which are identical
72. They contain chromosomes in PAIRS
73. Only contains ONE chromosome from each pair
74. Body cell
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Sex cell
Process of making 4 haploid sex cells
a characteristic of an organism
the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring
a cross between two organisms that differ in only one trait
a cross between two organisms that differ in 2 traits
the factor that controls traits
the possibilities of a gene (e.g. A or a)
one allele is dominant to a recessive allele
the allele that masks any other allele when there are 2 alleles present
the allele that is masked by another allele
having two identical alleles for a trait (AA or aa)
having two dominant alleles for a trait (AA)
having two recessive alleles for a trait (aa)
having two different alleles for a trait (Aa)
the visible traits of an organism (physical)
the alleles that an organism carries (e.g. Aa or AA or aa)
a model used to represent crosses between organisms
Sugar found in DNA
Sugar found in RNA
Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
Monomer of a nucleic acid
Process of reproduction of 2 identical DNA strands
98. Mistakes in the sequence of DNA
99. Enzyme that unzips DNA
100. Enzyme that adds nucleotides to DNA template strand