Life Science - 1
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
A characteristic of a living thing which allows it to survive and reproduce in its environment
What is an adaptation?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Word that means living
What is biotic?
The balance maintained in living things to keep them alive
What is homeostasis?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
shape of a DNA molecule
double helix
What is a protein?
The cell organelle responsible for releasing energy from food
What are mitochondria?
System that changes food particles into nutrients that body cells can use
What is the digestive system?
The body system responsible for making blood cells, as well as for providing support and structure
What is the skeletal system?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
A single stranded copy of DNA
What is RNA?
Number of chromosomes in each human cell
Allows the body parts to move, moves food through your digestive system, and pumps blood via the heart
What is the muscular system?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
Any change to the genetic code
What is a mutation?
Name for the cells produced by meiosis that indicates that they have half of the genetic material of other cells
What is haploid?
Number of daughter cells at the end of meiosis
What are 4?
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
Transportation of oxygen, nutrients, and wastes through the body in the blood
What is circulatory system?
4 nitrogenous bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
Group of simplest organisms without a nucleus
What are prokaryotes?
Process of moving water across a membrane from high to low concentration
What is osmosis?
The system containing the lungs, trachea, and diaphragm
What is the respiratory system?
Cells with complex organelles
What are eukaryotic cells?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is a trait?
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
The passing of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
Processes in your body (like breathing, your heart beating) that occur without you having to think about them
What are involuntary reactions?
Three parts of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate, sugar, and nitrogenous base?