Characteristics of Life
An organisms behavioral change that follows a stimulus from their environment is defined as a...
Response
This type of organism produce their own energy, usually by photosynthesis...
Autotrophic
Which organelle is responsible for storing waste, water, and food for the cell?
Vacuole
True or False: Hypertonic solutions causes cells to swell.
False
Water droplets form by water molecules being attracted to each other.
Cohesion
All living things are composed of one or more _____.
Cells
Organisms that are only made of one cell.
Unicellular
Which organelles do plant cells have that animal cells do not?
Chloroplasts and Cell Wall
True or False: Facilitated diffusion helps large molecules across the cell membrane.
True
Thin, outer layer of cytoplasm, which is semipermeable. (it allows certain things in or out)
Cell Membrane
Most animals and plants reproduce through ________ reproduction.
Sexual
Cells with no membrane bound organelles.
Prokaryotic
A principal is the “control center” of a school. Which organelle is the “control center” of the cell?
Nucleus
This type of transport requires energy for the molecules to move across the gradient.
Active
Energy is made here through the process of cellular respiration, oxygen is used to burn food.
Mitochondria
A change in an organisms internal or external environment is defined as a...
Stimulus
This organism must get their energy from outside their bodies, usually by eating it.
Heterotrophic
A door lets things in and out of a room. Which organelle acts most like a door, letting things in and out of the cell?
Cell Membrane
Diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane.
Osmosis
The variable that is being measured in the experiment.
Organisms with one or more cells is known as a __________ organism.
Multicellular
These type of bacteria live in extreme environments.
Archaebacteria
_____ are like small factories that make proteins for the cell.
Ribosomes
A mixture of two or more substances is called a...
Solution
What is the independent variable?
The variable that is being changed in the experiment.