Criteria of Life
All living things do this by increasing in cell size or number of cells.
What is grow?
This is the smallest unit of life in creation.
What is a cell?
Humans and animals get energy by consuming this.
What is food?
The book describes the shape of a DNA strand as this twisted.
What is a ladder?
What is a tissue?
All living things need food to use for this.
What is energy?
This is the exterior of a cell keeping out harmful things to the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Plants create their own type of food using sunlight and simple chemicals in this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the name for the sides of a DNA strand.
What is a backbone?
This type of tissue connects parts of the body together, like bones, blood, ligaments, or tendons.
What is connective tissue?
All living things use receptors to do this because of the conditions of their internal and external environments.
What is sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes?
This is the middle of an animal or plant cell, and contains most of the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
Photosynthesis is possible in plant cells because of an organelle that contains chlorophyll that is called this.
What is a chloroplast?
This is the name of the shape of a DNA strand.
What is a double helix?
This type of tissue is responsible for movement in the body, like in the heart.
All living things contain DNA which has this to be passed on through reproduction.
What is hereditary information?
This is the jellylike substance that fills a cell.
What is cytoplasm?
The process that plants have to use their food is called cellular respiration, which uses glucose sugar and oxygen to create these 3 products.
What are energy, carbon dioxide, and water?
This is the matching pattern to a half of a DNA strand with the pattern A G T A A T C C A G.
What is T C A T T A G G T C?
This type of tissue conducts signals to and from all the parts of the body.
What is nerve tissue?
All living things must be in homeostasis meaning this.
What is chemically regulate their internal environment so it is stable?
This is the organelle of a cell that gives it energy, being known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The process of photosynthesis uses solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water reacting together to create these two products.
What are glucose sugar and oxygen?
DNA is an abbreviation for the spelling of this term.
deoxyribonucleic acid
This type of tissue creates protective barriers like your skin and around some organs.
What is epithelial tissue?