Vocabulary
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of the sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food
What is photosynthesis?
The smallest unit of life in creation
What is the cell?
All living things use this
What is energy?
The shape of DNA
What is a double helix?
The study of animals
What is zoology?
An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organisms
What is a decomposer?
Cells are surrounded by an outer covering called this
What is a membrane?
All living things can sense and respond to these in their environment
What are changes?
DNA is made up of 2 long strands of atoms linked together in just the right way. These strands are made up of alternating sugar groups and these
What are phosphate groups?
The study of an organism's structures
What is anatomy?
The method of sorting things according to shared qualities or characterisitics
What is classification?
A jellylike material that fills the cell
What is cytoplasm?
All living things are made up of these
What are cells?
Units that connect the strands of the double helix of DNA
What are nucleotide bases?
The study of plants
What is botany?
A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles
What is a prokaryotic cell?
These parts of a cell have specific jobs they do in order to keep the cell alive
What are organelles?
All living things cheically regulate their internal environment so it is this
What is stable?
Of the following nucleotide the one that pairs with adenine: guanine,thymine, or cytosine
What is thymine?
The study of organisms too small to see without a microscope
What is microbiology?
A cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles
What is a Eukaryotic cell
The part of the cell where you will find most of the cell's DNA
WHat is the nucleus?
All living things contain hereditary information in this tat enambles life to continue through reproduction.
What is DNA?
This is what DNA stands for
WHat is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The study of how organisms interact with their environment and each other
What is ecology?