An educated guess or proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested.

An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

An organic polymer consisting of many amino-acids bonding together to form a chain.

The production of new living organisms through the sexual combination of genetic combination

a basic unit of heredity and a sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA

Anything that can be changed in an experiment.

The state of steady internal, physical, and chemical conditions maintained by by living systems.

The property of the surface of a liquid which allows resistance to an external source

A type of reproduction where offspring are produced by one parent and receive their full genes.

a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment

A peice of an experiment that stands along and is not effected by anything else in the experiment.

The thick solution that fills each cell and is inclosed by the cell membrane.

A homogenous mixture where the substanced dissolve in water

a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus

term used in genetics for the composite observable characteristics or traits of an organism.

A peice of an experiment that changed based off of the other peices of the experiement.

Organelles that conduct photosynthesis.

a molecule or ion capable of giving protons, o forming a covalent bond with an electron pair.

a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms used to produce the gametes, such as sperm or egg cells

the genetic constitution of an individual organism.

The standard to which comparisons are made in an experiment.

A cell without a nucleus.

substances which react with acids

any cell of a living organism other than the reproductive cells.

a relationship between two versions of a gene