Characteristics of Life
This characteristic means living things causes populations to increase.
Reproduction
The control center of the cell.
Nucleus
This process uses sunlight to make glucose.
Photosynthesis
This line of defense includes skin.
1st line of defense
Tiny organisms that can be helpful or harmful.
Microbes
Give one example of an external stimulus.
Light
Temp
Touch
This organelle produces energy (ATP).
Mitocondria
Where does cellular respiration occur?
Mitocondria
These cells attack pathogens directly.
White blood cells
The difference between epidemic and pandemic is this.
Local vs global
State one part of cell theory.
all living things are made of cells / cells come from other cells / cells are the basic unit of life?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell.
Cell membrane
What does phtotsynthesis produce?
Oxygen and glucose
This response causes redness and swelling.
Inflammation
One way microbes benefit humans.
What is helping digestion / making food / producing medicine?
Why are viruses not considered living?
they cannot reproduce on their own / no cells
Name one difference between plant and animal cells.
plants have cell walls/chloroplasts; animals do not
Where does photosynthesis occur?
Chloroplasts
The third line of defense involves white blood cells making _____________.
Antibodies
What is patient zero?
First person infected
Give an internal stimulus example AND response.
stomach growling → eat
Compare prokaryotic vs eukaryotic cells.
prokaryotes have no nucleus; eukaryotes do?
How are these two processes related?
products of one are reactants of the other?
Explain how white blood cells fight infection.
they engulf pathogens or produce antibodies
What is antibiotic resistance?
bacteria evolving so antibiotics no longer work