Cell Stuff
The part of the cell that stores wastes, water or food.
What is the vacuole?
The organelle that controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The first word of an organism's scientific name.
What is the genus?
A relationship where one organism is benefitted and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
The process that creates body cells.
What is mitosis?
The control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
A set of organs that work together to perform a specific function.
What is an organ system?
The man that created the current system of classification.
Who is Linnaeus?
The process of breaking down sugar to produce usable energy.
What is cellular respiration?
The location of chromosomes in plant and animal cells.
What is the nucleus?
Formed when tissues combine.
What is an organ?
The cell structure that protects and gives shape to plant cells.
What is the cell wall?
How fungi get energy.
What is decomposer (break down dead organisms)?
Along with oxygen, this substance is produced from carbon dioxide and water.
What is glucose (food/sugar)?
A section of this DNA molecule that codes for a specific inherited trait.
What is a gene?
Cells are formed when these combine.
What are molecules (macromolecules)?
Organisms responsible for recycling and returning matter in a food web/ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
Some are predation, shelter, competition and disease.
What are limiting factors?
A law describing that matter changes form but the quantity does not change as it travels through a food web.
What is the Law of Conservation?
An example is TT (used in Punnett squares).
What is genotype?
The two processes plant cells use to absorb, release and use energy.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Three examples include responding to stimuli, reproducing, and maintaining.
What are characteristics of living things?
When different animals have the same bones, they likely have this in common.
What is a common ancestor?
Three ways CO2 is returned to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle.
What are combustion, decomposition and respiration?
A tool that give the probability of traits occurring during reproduction.
What is a Punnett square?