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Vocabulary 1

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the genetic constitution of an individual organisms complete set of genes?

a)

Genotype

b)

Gene

c)

DNA

d)

Chromosome

2.

What are facts and statistics that are collected for reference or analysis?

a)

Atom

b)

Dependent Variable

c)

Data

d)

Experiment

3.

What is the scientific theory that organisms are made up cells, are the basic structure of unit or organisms, and cells come from preexisting cells.

a)

Chromosome

b)

DNA

c)

Cellular Respiration

d)

Cell Theory

4.

What is a ridget layer of polysaccharides lying outside the plasma membrane of the cell of plants, fungi, and bacteria?

a)

Chromosome

b)

Cell Wall

c)

Fertilization

d)

Gene

5.

What is a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact?

a)

Dependant Variable

b)

Contrast

c)

Dependant Variable

d)

Experiment

6.

What is a quantity that is unknown but assumed to have a fixed variable in a specified mathematical context?

a)

Data

b)

Dependant Variable

c)

Cytoplasm

d)

Constant

7.

What is the basic unit of a chemical element?

a)

Atom

b)

Cellular Respiration

c)

Chloroplast

d)

Cytoskeleton

8.

What is a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristics of the offspring?

a)

Chlorophyll

b)

Element

c)

Gene

d)

Chromosome

9.

What is fundamental materials of which all matter is composed, and cannot be decomposed into simpler substances?

a)

Atom

b)

Element

c)

Cell Wall

d)

Gene

10.

What is a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes?

a)

Carbohydrate

b)

Cellular Respiration

c)

Chromosome

d)

Chloroplast

11.

What is any large groups of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissue and including sugars, starch and cellulose. They contain Hydrogen and Oxygen in the same ratio as water (2:1) ad typically can be broken down to release energy in the animal body?

a)

Cytoplasm

b)

Carbohydrate

c)

Carbohydrate

d)

Endoplasmic Reticulum

12.

What is the action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote?

a)

Fertilization

b)

DNA

c)

Atom

d)

Element

13.

What is a self-replacing material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes, and carries the genetic information?

a)

Chromosome

b)

Cellular Respiration

c)

DNA

d)

Chlorophyll

14.

What is something that depends on other factors?

a)

Genotype

b)

Gene

c)

Dependent Variable

d)

Constant

15.

What is the process where organisms combine with Oxygen, food, and stuff molecules?

a)

Cellular Respiration

b)

DNA

c)

Cytoskeleton

d)

Chloroplast

16.

What is a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place?

a)

Endoplasmic cell

b)

Atom

c)

Cytoskeleton

d)

Chloroplast

17.

What is a network of membranous tubules within the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell, continuous with the nuclear membrane?

a)

Endoplasmic Reticulum

b)

Empirical Evidence

c)

Chlorophyll

d)

Chloroplast

18.

What is a green pigment present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis?

a)

Atom

b)

Chlorophyll

c)

Cell Wall

d)

Data

19.

What is a microscopic network of protein filaments and tubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells, giving them their shape, and coherence?

a)

Cytoskeleton

b)

Chromosome

c)

Cell Theory

d)

Atom

20.

What is information acquired by observation or experiment

a)

Cytoskeleton

b)

Dependent Variable

c)

Empirical Evidence

d)

Element

21.

What is a cell original- small flat sacs formed by membranes inside the cytoplasm?

a)

Lysosome

b)

Golgi Complex

c)

Model

d)

Photosynthesis

22.

What is a membrane bound cell organelle? These are in animal cells to help sequester waste, and in plant cells help maintain water balance.

a)

Nucleic Acid

b)

Photosynthesis

c)

Vacuole

d)

Identity

23.

What is a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation?

a)

Element

b)

Hypothesis

c)

Observation

d)

Science

24.

What is a informative representation of an object, person, or symbol?

a)

Science

b)

Model

c)

Lysosome

d)

Observation

25.

What is distinguishing character or personality of an individual?

a)

Ribosome

b)

Observation

c)

Identity

d)

Mean

26.

What is a carefully thought out explanation for observations of the natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method?

a)

Law

b)

Mitocondria

c)

Simulation

d)

Theory

27.

What is a naturally occuring chemical compound that serves as the primary information carrying molecules in cells? These are also important for directing protein synthesis.

a)

Lysosome

b)

Nucleic Acid

c)

Observation

d)

Organic COmpound

28.

What is research or teaching technique that reproduces actual events and processes under test conditions?

a)

Hypothesis

b)

Mean

c)

Simulation

d)

Independent Variable

29.

What is an active acquisition of information from a primary source?

a)

Photosynthesis

b)

Law

c)

Theory

d)

Observation

30.

What is a variable that is changed my science?

a)

Independent Variable

b)

Lysosome

c)

Dependent Variable

d)

Photosynthesis

31.

What is a large class of chemical compounds that one or more atom of carbon are covalently linked to atoms of another element?

a)

Organic Compound

b)

Atom

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Ribosome

32.

What is the intllectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure of behavior of a physical and natural world through observation and experiments?

a)

Science

b)

Photosynthesis

c)

Lysosome

d)

Golgi Complex

33.

What generates most of the chemical energy needed to power cells bichemical reactions?

a)

Lipid

b)

Ribosome

c)

Protein

d)

Mitochondria

34.

What is a system of rules created or enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior?

a)

Proteins

b)

Science

c)

Lipid

d)

Law

35.

What is in plants and some other organisms that use sunlight to synthesize food from carbon dioxide and water?

a)

Photosynthesis

b)

Lipid

c)

Lysosome

d)

Mean

36.

What is a form that the factory protein synthesis in cells? This is known for encoding messages from messenger RNA molecules to synthesize proteins to amino acids.

a)

Ribosome

b)

Lysome

c)

Nucleic Acid

d)

Model

37.

What is a substance that is insoluble in water and soluble in alcohol, either, and chloroform?

a)

Organic Compound

b)

Mean

c)

Lipid

d)

Ribosome

38.

What is the average value calculated by taking the sum of all values and dividing by the total number of values?

a)

Law

b)

Mean

c)

Hypothesis

d)

Lipid

39.

What is the naturally occuring, consist of amino acid residues joined by peptide bonds?

a)

Atom

b)

Proteins

c)

Element

d)

Lysosome

40.

What is a membrane bound cell organelle that contains digestive enzymes?

a)

Lysosome

b)

Mitochondria

c)

Identity

d)

Hypothesis