Characteristics of Life
Number of life characteristics
What is 7?
Subatomic particle involved in chemical bonds
What is an electron?
Includes the sugars and starches
What are carbohydrates?
Basic unit of life
What is the cell?
Maintains homeostasis in the cell
What is plasma or cell membrane?
Increase in cell size and number
What is growth?
Sharing of electrons between atoms
What is a covalent bond?
Includes the fats, oils and waxes
What are lipids?
"control center"
What is the nucleus?
requires energy to bring material into cell
What is active transport?
Used by all living organisms
What is energy?
Transfers an electron from one atom to another
What is an ionic bond?
building unit of a protein
What is an amino acid?
protective cellulose covering
What is the cell wall?
Pumps water out of a cell
What is the contractile vacuole?
What an organism is made up of and how it is put together.
What is organization?
Element becomes stable when this is full
What is the valence shell?
stores information in DNA and RNA
What are the nucleic acids?
cells with membrane bound organelles
What is eukaryotic?
Cells do this in a hypotonic solution
What is swell?
Maintaining stable internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
Number of electrons in the valence of Carbon (6C12)
What is the number 4?
Joins smaller organic compounds into larger ones
What is condensation reaction?
carries out intracellular digestions
What is the lysosome?
Solution having more solute outside of a cell
What is hypertonic?