Module 3 Vocabulary
The specific environment of an organism that is both biotic and abiotic.
What is habitat?
The double membrane-bond organelle in which nutrients are converted to energy.
What is mitochondria?
The gel-like fluid that is found inside the inner membrane of chloroplasts.
What is a stroma?
The diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane from an area of high water concentration (low solute concentration) to low water concentration (high solute concentration.
What is osmosis?
_________ produces the most ATP.
What is the electron transport chain?
A close relationship between two or more species where at least one benefits.
What is symbiosis?
A highly porous membrane that separates the nucleus from the cytoplasm.
What is the nuclear membrane?
The process of cellular respiration that takes place in the cytoplasm.
What is Glycolysis?
Name the secondary consumer.
algae → minnow → bass → raccoon
What is bass?
Name the color of light a green plant would grow best under.
What is red?
An organisms that produce their own food.
What is a producer?
An organelle composed of an extensive network of folded membranes that performs several tasks within a cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
The second stage of cellular respiration, where CO2 is used to complete the breakdown of pyruvic acid molecules, releasing energy.
What is the Krebs Cycle?
True or False: Water is the only molecule that moves by osmosis.
What is True?
Name the type of symbiosis that occurs between nitrifying bacteria and the roots of some legumes.
What is mutualism?
Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms.
What are decomposers?
The random motion of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration until its concentration reaches equilibrium.
What is diffusion?
A series of electron carrying molecules within a membrane that transfer electrons and release energy at each transfer.
What is the electron transport chain?
Fermentation is either aerobic or anaerobic
What is anaerobic?
Name the products of cellular respiration and the reactants of photosynthesis.
What are water and carbon dioxide?
An organism’s role in its ecosystem, including its habitat, physical requirements, the time of day it is active, its place on the food chain, and when and how it reproduces.
What is niche?
The organelles where proteins and lipids are stored and then modified to suit the needs of the cell.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
During cellular respiration, energy from the breakdown of food is stored in_____.
What is ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)?
_____________ cells have a membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles that _____________ cells do not.
What are eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
Name two of the three main ideas of cell theory.
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