Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of life? reproduction/speaking/ability to grow
What is speaking?
The smallest unit that cannot be broken down any further
What is atoms
A living thing
What is an organism?
Are pumpkin seeds living, nonliving, or dead
What is living?
The charge of an eletron
What is negative?
The act of producing offspring
Reproduction
Large, complex molecules that play many critical roles in the body. Found in meat, eggs, nuts.
What are proteins?
The ability to do work and cause change
What is energy?
The idea that life could suddenly appear from nonliving matter
What is spontaneous generation?
smallest unit tom be considered fully alive
What are cells
Two or more atoms that are chemically joined together
What is a molecule?
New organisms made from a living thing
What is offspring?
Long term storage of energy for the body
What is Lipids
A biological catalyst and is almost always a protein. It speeds up the rate of a specific chemical reaction in the cell.
What is an enzyme?
The function of a nucleic acid
to store and transmit genetic material