The process that plants go through to capture and use energy from the sun to make food
Photosynthesis
What is the major form of energy produced by the mitochondria?
ATP
The process cells go through to grow, copy their DNA, and divide to make new cells
Cell cycle
A simple type of sugar formed by photosynthesis
Glucose
Cell parts found in a nucleus that contain DNA and determine what traits a living thing will have (Hint: look like the letter 'X')
Chromosomes
The place within a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place
Chloroplast
What are new cells produced by cell division called?
Daughter cells
The two products of photosynthesis
Oxygen and Glucose
What is mitosis?
- what is goal
- how many cells are there are the beginning vs. the end
Mitosis is when 1 parent cell divides into 2 daughter cells. The daughter cells are genetically identical to the parent cell.
Openings in a plants leaves that absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen
Stomata
What is chromatin?
Threadlike bundles of DNA that make up a chromosome