Life Science - 1
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Word for all living things.
What is an organism?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
The balance maintained in living things to keep them alive
What is homeostasis?
shape of a DNA molecule
double helix
What is a protein?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
System that changes food particles into nutrients that body cells can use
What is the digestive system?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
Single strand copy of DNA
What is RNA?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
Number of chromosomes in each human cell
Makes ribosomes.
What is the nucleolus?
System that allows the body parts to move and moves blood through your digestive system
What is the muscular system?
An alteration to the genetic code
What is a mutation?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
Amount of genetic information in cells produced by meiosis
What is half or 50%?
Number of daughter cells at the end of meiosis
What are 4?
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
What is the S stage of interphase?
Group of simplest organisms without a nucleus
What are prokaryotes?
4 nitrogenous bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
What is osmosis?
The phase when spindle fibers pull the sister chromatids apart in mitosis.
What is anaphase?
Cells with complex organelles
What are eukaryotic cells?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is a trait?
What is anaphase I?
This organelle removes harmful substances from the cell and produces lipids.
What is the smooth ER?
The passing of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
Three parts of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate, sugar, and nitrogenous base?