Cells
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
The basic building block of matter
What is an atom?
Put the living levels of organization in order from simplest to most complex
Cell, Tissue, Organ, organ System, Organism
Type of reproduction where the offspring are identical copies of the parents.
What is Asexual reproduction?
The process plants use to make glucose (food)
What is photosynthesis?
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
Solid, liquid, and gas
What are the states of matter?
Brings oxygen into the body. Gets rid of carbon dioxide and water vapor.
What is the circulatory system?
How a trait appears or is expressed.
What is phenotype?
The process organisms use to convert food (glucose) into usable energy
Cellular respiration
Stores food, water, wastes, and other materials
What is the vacuole?
a characteristic of matter that can be observed or measured without changing the identity of the matter.
What is a physical property?
Sends signals through the body. Controls actions (voluntary and involuntary)
What is the nervous system?
A genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are the same.
What is homozygous
Example: Flammability
What is a chemical property?
a cell that does not have a nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Particles are sliding past each other
What is the liquid state of matter?
Protective barrier, retains body fluid, regulates body temperature
What is the integumentary system?
Name 3 types of asexual reproduction
budding, binary fission, fragmentation, vegetative propagation,
states that the total mass of the reactants before a chemical reaction is the same as the total mass of the products after the chemical reaction
What is the law of conservation of mass?
Examples: growth, reproduction, reaction to stimuli
What are characteristics of life?
As pressure increases, ____________ decreases
What is volume?
Removes waste from your body and controls water balance
What is the excretory system?
Example: Wind blowing dandelion seeds
What is seed dispersal?
Example: color changes, gas production (bubbles/odor), precipitate formation (solid forming from liquids), temperature shifts (heat/cold), and light emission
What is evidence of a chemical change