Living Things
The basic building block of life, the fundamental unit of an animal organism.
What is the cell?
When an animal or plant dies, fungi serve as ___________.
What are decomposers?
The stalk of the flower is also called the _________.
What is the peduncle?
In a common lab staining technique used to determine which type of bacteria you're dealing with in a sample- the results are labeled as ____ positive or _____ negative.
What is gram?
Both animal and plant cells are __________. meaning that they have a nucleus and membrane- bound organelles.
What is eukaryotic?
These are the cleaners of the cell. The destroy harmful substances and old, worn out cell parts.
What are lysosomes?
Most plants and fungi are sessile, meaning they _________
what is stay in one place?
The part of the pistil where pollen germinates is the _________.
What is the stigma?
__________ are tiny single celled organisms that can cause infection but many are beneficial to humans and exist naturally inside our bodies.
What are bacteria?
Plant cells are unique because they have a __________ that provides structure.
What is rigid cell wall?
Energy for the cell is made in the _________.
What is the mitochondria?
Fungi are made up of microscopic filaments filaments called _________.
What are hyphae?
The outer parts of the flower (often green and leaf-like) that encloses a developing bud are called the ___________.
What is the sepal?
___________ is a substance (normally a liquid) in which other materials dissolve to form a solution. Present in a larger quantity.
What is the solvent?
In plant cells, _____________ are responsible for photosynthesis using sunlight to create food for the plant; these features are not found in animal cells.
What are chloroplasts?
This contains the genetic material of the cell, the DNA. The "control Center" that tells the cell what to do.
What is the nucleus?
Fungi are _________ meaning they do not produce their own food.
What is heterotrophic?
____________ is the movement of water molecules (only the solvent particles move) across a semipermeable membrane from a region of high solute concentration to low (from a dilute solution to a concentrated solution).
What is Osmosis?
The energy of motion, the energy an object has when it is moving is called ______________.
What is kinetic energy?
When a plant is dehydrated, the __________ in its cells shrinks, causing the plant to wilt.
What are vacuoles?
DNA is a double helix, meaning it has a ___________ shape.
What is a twisted ladder?
Plants are __________, meaning they do produce their own food.
What is autotrophic?
___________ is a net movement of molecules from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration to equalize concentration.
What is diffusion?
_________ is a net movement of molecules from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration to equalize concentration.
What is diffusion?
The set of instructions inside our cells that tells our body what traits we have and are passed down from parents to offspring is called____________.
What is DNA?