Cells and Genetics Vocab and Concepts

What is the simplest unit of life?

• A tissue

• A system

• An organ

• A cell

What come together to form an organ?

• Organelles

• Tissues

• Systems

• Muscles

Which is not an organism made of many cells?

• Bacterium

• Flea

• Human

• Dog

An organism that is made of only one cell is called

• unicellular

• multicellular

• nonliving

• mutated

All living things are made of which of the following?

• Organs

• Oxygen

• Cells

• All of these

All cells must come from ________ cells.

• preexisting
• offspring

• mutated

• new

What is the “molecule of life” that determines your characteristics?

• Cell

• Gene

• DNA

• Organ

What is a segment of DNA that gives information about a trait?

• Gene

• Cell

• Organ

• Tissue

Your traits are ____________ from your parents.

• inherited
• reversed

• mutated

• none of these

Traits are passed from parent to ________.

• heredity
• offspring

• gene

• inherited