| A | B |
| force | A push or pull on an object. |
| freezing point | The temperature at which a liquid changes to a solid. |
| friction | The rubbing together of two objects. |
| galaxy | Groups of billiona of stars. |
| gas | A state of matter that can change its shape and volume. |
| gene | A section of DNA that directs the synthesis of proteins. |
| genetics | The study of how traits are inherited. |
| genotype | A letter combination that represents alleles inherited from each parent. |
| genus | The first name in the binomial system that is given to each organism on earth. |
| glucose | C6H12O6 An energy source for organisms. |
| gravity | A force that brings objects together. |
| Gregor Mendel | The father of genetics. |
| graph | A way to organize data the shows relationships. |
| habitat | The place where an organism lives. |
| heat | The transfer of energy from hot to cold. |
| herbivore | An organisms that eats plants. |
| heredity | The passing of traits from parent to offspring. |
| heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food. |
| heterozygous | A trait expressed by both a capital and a lower case letter which represents an allele inherited from each parent. |
| homozygous | A trait inherited from each parent in which both alleles are the same letter. |
| hypothesis | An educated guess. |
| food web | An interrelated network of food chains. |
| Francis Crick & James Watson | The scientists that won the nobel prize for figuring out the structure of a DNA molecule. |
| haploid | A cell without pairs of chromosomes. |
| incomplete dominance | When an intermediate trait is produced by a genetic cross. |