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When something is so tiny that it cannot be seen by humans without assistance.
What is microscopic?
Dense area in a cell that contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
Process of grouping things according to their similarities.
What is classification?
Process by which plants produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Powerhouse of the cell.
Single-celled organism that does not have a nuclei.
What is bacteria?
This involves only one parent cell.
What is asexual reproduction or mitosis?
Scientific study of how living things are classified.
What is taxonomy?
Organelle in which photosynthesis occurs.
What is the chloroplast?
Organelle responsible for producing ribosomes.
What is the nucleolus?
What is yeast?
Combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials.
What is metabolism?
Group of similar organisms that are compatible for the purpose of producing offspring that can also reproduce.
What is species?
This substance is what causes chloroplasts to be green.
What is chlorophyll?
What is a centriole?
The largest group of classification
What is a kingdom?
Idea in which living things can arise from nonliving things.
What is spontaneous generation?
Process by which unrelated organisms evolve characteristics that are similar.
What is convergent evolution?
Because plants produce their own food, they are called _____trophs.
What are autotrophs?
During this phase of mitosis spindle fibers pull one copy of DNA toward its side of the cell.
What is anaphase?
System in which a two-part scientific name is given to an organism.
What is binomial nomenclature?
What is heterotroph and autotroph?
Shows probable evolutionary relationships among organisms and the order in which specific characteristics may have evolved.
What is a branching tree diagram?
These three things are needed in order for plants to perform photosynthesis. The name of the sugar that plants produce through photosyntheis.
What is energy from sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, and glucose?
The three phases of the cell cycle. The four phases of mitosis?
What is interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis? What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?