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Life Science Vocabulary

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria?

a)

Chloroplasts

b)

Nature

c)

Chlorophyll

d)

Producer

2.

What is Stimulus?

a)

A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.

b)

An action or a change in behavior that occurs as a result of stimulus.

c)

An organism that can make its own food.

d)

Scared prey running to a safe place.

3.

What is the movement of Materials through a cell membrane using cellular energy?

a)

Mitosis

b)

Osmosis

c)

Meiosis

d)

Active Transport

4.

What is the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parents to offspring?

a)

Deoxyirbonucleic Acid (DNA)

b)

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)

c)

Transcription

d)

Translation

5.

What is the process that occurs in the formation of sex cells (sperm and egg) by which the number of chromosomes are reduced by half?

a)

Osmosis

b)

Mitosis

c)

Meiosis

d)

Heredity

6.

What is the diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane that is your skin?

a)

Osmosis

b)

Mitosis

c)

Meiosis

d)

Diffusion

7.

The stage of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell?

a)

Osmosis

b)

Meiosis

c)

Mitosis

d)

Diffusion

8.

What is an action or a change in behavior that occurs as a result of stimulus?

a)

Stimulus

b)

Active Transport

c)

Diffusion

d)

Response

9.

What is an animal whose body regulates its own temperature by controlling the internal heat it produces?

a)

Endotherm

b)

Chordate

c)

Exotherm

d)

Symbios

10.

A close relationship between two organisms in which at least one of the organisms benefits?

a)

Incomplete Metamorphisis

b)

Complete Metamorphisis

c)

Chordate

d)

Symbios

11.

What is an animal whose body does not produce much internal heat?

a)

Homeostasis

b)

Chordate

c)

Endotherm

d)

Exotherm

12.

What are plant cell structures in which photosynthesis occurs?

a)

Chlorophyll

b)

Producer/ Autotroph

c)

Consumer/ Heterotroph

d)

Chloroplasts

13.

What is a change in body form characterized by 4 dramatically different stages?

a)

Incomplete Metamorphisis

b)

Complete Metamorphisis

c)

Genotype

d)

Phenotype

14.

What is the change in body form consisting of the egg, nymph, and adult stages?

a)

Complete Metamorphisis

b)

Incomplete Metamorphisis

c)

Heredity

d)

Response

15.

What is the phylum whose members have a notochord, a nerve chord, and slits in their throat area at some point in their life?

a)

Symbios

b)

Endotherm

c)

Exotherm

d)

Chordate

16.

What is an organism's physical appearance, or visible traits?

a)

Genotype

b)

Symbios

c)

Heredity

d)

Phenotype

17.

What is the scientific study of how living things are classified?

a)

Genotype

b)

Translation

c)

Taxonomy

d)

Transcription

18.

What is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?

a)

Producer/ AUtotroph

b)

Consumer/ Heterotroph

c)

Homeostasis

d)

Diffusion

19.

What is the process by which the genetic code in DNA is transcribed onto a strand of mRNA?

a)

Translation

b)

Transcription

c)

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)

d)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

20.

What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

a)

Heredity

b)

Translation

c)

Meiosis

d)

Symbiosis

21.

What is an organisms genetic makeup, or allele combinations?

a)

Phenotype

b)

Genotype

c)

Symbiosis

d)

Chordate

22.

What is the process by which a protein chain is created from information contained with RNA?

a)

Transcription

b)

Phenotype

c)

Translation

d)

Genotype

23.

What is a nucleic acid that plays an important role in the production of proteins?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

b)

Transcription

c)

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)

d)

Translation

24.

What is the process by which molecules move from an area from higher concentration to an area of lower concentration?

a)

Response

b)

Stimulus

c)

Diffusion

d)

Complete Metamorphisis

25.

What is the maintenance of stable internal conditions regardless of external conditions?

a)

Endotherm

b)

Homeostasis

c)

Exotherm

d)

Symbiosis

26.

What is an organism that can make its own food?

a)

Consumer/ Heterotroph

b)

Producer/ Autotroph

c)

Stimulus

d)

Response