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Cells
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Chapter 2
100
A living thing.
What is an organism?
100
The instrument that makes small things look larger.
What is a microscope?
100
A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.
What is an element?
100
The gel-like region between the cell membrane and nucleus; in a cell without a nucleus it is the region inside the cell membrane.
What is the cytoplasm?
100
The process by which some organisms like plants make their own food using energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
200
A cell with a bound nucleus.
What is eukaryote?
200
The basic unit of structure and function in living things.
What is a cell?
200
A compound that contain the element carbon. Examples: Carbohydrates and lipids.
What is an organic compound?
200
The center of the cell that contains the cell's nucleic acids and controls the activities of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
200
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a autotroph?
300
A cell without a bound nucleus.
What is a prokaryote?
300
A microscope with more than one lens.
What is a compound microscope?
300
The movements of molecules from a area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
300
The rigid layer of nonliving material in plant cells and some other cells.
What is the cell wall?
300
An organism that cannot make its own food.
What is a heterotroph?
400
The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving things.
What is spontaneous generation?
400
The widely accepted explanation for the relationship between cells and living things.
What is cell theory.
400
Transport proteins and transport by engulfing are examples of...
What is active transport?
400
Interphase, Mitosis and Cytokinesis are the three stages of the...
What is the cell cycle?
400
The products of respiration.
What is carbon dioxide, water and energy?
500
The levels of taxonomy from broadest to most specific.
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
500
This man invented the compound microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
500
The movement of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
500
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase are the four parts/ phases of
What is mitosis?
500
A change in a gene or DNA.
What is a mutation?
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