Vocab 1
The reproductive process that involves one parent and produces offspring identical to the parent.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
Kingdom of autotrophic eukaryotes that includes all plants.
What is Kingdom Plantae?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an Autotroph?
A category of organisms made up of more than one cell and of different types of cells.
What is Multicellular?
An organism that must consume other organisms for energy.
What is a Heterotroph?
Kingdom of heterotrophic eukaryotes that includes all animals.
What is Kingdom Animalia?
One of the three taxonomic domains; a highly diverse group of single-celled, prokaryotic organisms.
What is Bacteria?
A cell with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a Eukaryotic Cell?
To sort or put into groups based on similar and dissimilar physical, chemical, or biological characteristics.
What is Classify?
The reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves.
What is Sexual Reproduction?
One of the three taxonomic domains of organisms; consists of a specialized group of unicellular prokaryotes that can live in extreme environments.
What is Domain Archaea?
Microorganisms from the kingdom Protista; must contain a nucleus.
What are Protists?
Heterotrophic eukaryotes that reproduce through asexual spores, break down dead materials, and can spread disease.
What is Fungi?
A cell lacking a nucleus or any other membrane-enclosed organelle.
What is a Prokaryotic Cell?
A category of organisms made up of one cell.
What is Unicellular?
The basic structural and functional unit of living organisms.
What is a Cell?
The second-highest level in the taxonomic hierarchy; contains six groups: Archaea, Bacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
What are Kingdoms?
The jellylike material inside the outer membrane of a cell that holds the nucleus, organelles, and other components of the cell.
What is the Cytoplasm?
A tough, protective barrier that surrounds thee outer membrane of some types of cells.
What is the Cell Wall?
A membrane-bound organelle in eukaryotic cells that contains the DNA; the control center of the cell.
What is the Nucleus?
The organelle that functions in energy production; the power house of the cell.
What is the Mitochondrion?
A structure inside a cell that performs a specialized function.
What is an Organelle?
A lipid barrier that encloses the cytoplasm and controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the Cell Membrane?
A membrane-bound organelle in plants that is the site of photosynthesis.
What is Chloroplast?
What is the Lysosome?