Root Words Quiz

Hydrolysis

• Equal amounts of water

• Water-fearing

• Water breaks something apart

• Water joins something together

Polysaccharide

• One sugar unit

• Single cell organism

• Many cells

• Many sugar units

Glycolysis

• To break down glucose

• To make glucose

• Water breaks apart

• Water joins together

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Homozygous

• A pair of alleles that are different

• A mixture that is uniform throughout

• A pair of alleles that are the same

• A mixture made up of different components

Haploid

• Chemical change

• Physical change

• Two sets of chromosomes

• A single set of chromosomes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Anaerobic

• Without oxygen

• Oxygen present

• Building things up

• Breaking things down

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-3

Macromolecule

• Large cell

• Large molecule

• Small cell

• Small molecule

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Photosynthesis

• Making food from chemicals

• Light particle

• Using light to make food

• Joining together

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Phagocytosis

• Cell eating

• Cell drinking

• Cell breaking down

• Cells joined together

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Transcription

• Chromatids cross over

• Genetic code written over from DNA to RNA

• Genetic code used to make a protein

• DNA mutates