Cell parts
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Word for all living things
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?
What do we call the shape of a DNA molecule?
double helix
The powerhouse of the cell, turns glucose into ATP/energy
What are mitochondria?
System that changes food particles into nutrients that body cells can use
What is the digestive system?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
Number of chromosomes in each human cell
Controls everything that the cell does, the "boss" of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
An alteration to the genetic code
What is a mutation?
Amount of genetic information in cells produced by meiosis
What is half or 50%?
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose using the energy from the sun.
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?
What is osmosis?
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
Cells with a nucleus and membrane bound organelles, are they prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
What are eukaryotic cells?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is a trait?
The passing of traits from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
Part of the brain responsible for involuntary processes
What is the medulla or brainstem?
Three parts of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate, sugar, and nitrogenous base?