Plants
The part of a plant that absorbs water and minerals from the soil.
What are roots?
The structure that contains the genetic material of most cells.
The organ that pumps blood around the body.
What is a heart?
The molecule that is the main source of energy used in respiration.
What is glucose?
The organisms that make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
The process that allows plants to make glucose using light energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The organelle where most aerobic respiration takes place.
The organs that remove carbon dioxide from the blood.
What are lungs?
The molecules that are built from amino acids.
What are proteins?
The term that describes the place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
The tissue that carries water from the roots to the leaves
What is a xylem?
The process where one cell divides to produce two genetically identical cells.
What is mitosis?
The hormone that helps lower blood glucose levels.
What is insulin?
The type of molecule that includes starch, glycogen and cellulose.
What are carbohydrates?
The relationship that occurs when both species benefit from interacting with each other.
What is mutualism?
The process that is the loss of water vapor from the leaves of a plant.
What is transpiration?
The process that moves water through a partially permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
The structures in the kidneys that filter the blood and help produce urine.
What are nephrons?
The bond that joins amino acids together in a protein.
What is a peptide bond?
The term that describes the role of a species in its environment.
What is an ecological niche?
The pores in leaves that can open and close to control gas exchange and water loss.
What are stomata?
The type of transport moves substances against their concentration gradient and requires energy.
What is active transport?
The part of a neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body.
The biological molecules that speed up chemical reactions without being used up.
What are enzymes?
The type of population growth that slows as a population gets closer to carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?