Life Science - 1
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?
shape of a DNA molecule
double helix
What part of the cell makes proteins?
What is a ribosome?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
System that changes food particles into nutrients that body cells can use
What is the digestive system?
What is the skeletal system?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
How many chromosomes are in each daughter cell at the end of mitosis?
What is 46?
When a liquid turns to gas
What is evaporation?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
An alteration to the genetic code that may be neutral, harmful, or beneficial.
What is a mutation?
Amount of genetic information in cells produced by meiosis
What is half or 50%?
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?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is skin?
Group of simplest organisms without a nucleus
What are prokaryotes?
What is osmosis?
The system containing the lungs, skin, and bladder
What is the excretory 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?
What are the reactants and products of photosynthesis?
Reactants: light energy, water, carbon dioxide
Products: glucose and oxygen
3 main differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
1. eukaryotes have a nucleus
2. prokaryotes must be single celled
3. eukaryotes have membrane-bound organelles