Plants & Fungi
This common type of fungi includes mushrooms and toadstools.
This informational structure is typically made up of a single strand of nucleic acids.
What is RNA?
The branch of cell biology that focuses on cell structures and how they function.
What is cytology?
These non-living structures must "hijack" a cell in order to replicate and spread.
What are viruses?
The study of the anatomy, physiology, behavior, and classification of the animals in creation.
This term refers to the reproductive portion of a fungi.
What is a fruiting body?
This group of major chemical compounds found in cells includes simple sugars and starches.
What are carbohydrates?
What is a chloroplast?
This term refers to the process of growing microorganisms in a controlled environment.
What are cultures?
The trachea, alveoli, diaphragm, and lungs are found in this organ system.
What is the respiratory system?
The chemical process by which an organism converts food into usable energy, represented by the following equation:
glucose sugar + oxygen --> energy + carbon dioxide + water
What is cellular respiration?
This major compound is necessary to carry out many of a living organism's chemical processes, including growth, maintenance, and cell replacement.
What is protein?
These organelles provides energy for the cell to use.
What are mitochondria?
A sub-branch of microbiology that is concerned with the study of organisms that live on or inside other organisms, harming them.
Various types of tissues that work together.
What are organs?
The part of a plant that is used to carry water and dissolved materials throughout the plant.
What is vascular tissue?
The 4 major elements contained in all cells.
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
A cell's semipermeable membrane is made out of a unique double layer of these molecules.
What are phospholipids?
A special injection of material containing whole, or parts of, a harmful organism that have been killed or weakened so that they don't cause disease.
What is a vaccine?
What is epithelial tissue?
The part of a plant that connects the leaf blade to the stem.
What is the petiole?
The branch of biology that deals with the structure and function of the chemicals of living things.
This semipermeable membrane surrounds the cell's "control center".
What is the nuclear membrane?
A type of medicine that only works on living organisms, such as bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
DNA is tightly coiled into these structures, so that it can be compactly stored within the cell's nucleus.
What are chromosomes?