Science

Living/Non living things 1

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Yeast and bacteria are.....................organisms;

what is 

single-celled 

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How many characteristics do living things display or have?

seven

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How do plants respire?

 It involves using the sugars produced during photosynthesis plus oxygen to produce energy for plant growth

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Name the characteristics of living things

what is

GRIMNER  Growth, Respiration, Irritability (interaction with the environment), Movement, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction

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Living organisms can be either many celled_________ or single celled___________

what is 

multicellular and unicellular

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What is made of cellulose and is only found in plant cells

Cell Wall

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P_________ are organisms whose cells lack a nucleus and other organelles.

Prokaryote

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Where DNA is found

Nucleus

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Examples of multicellular eukaryotes

animals

plants

protozoa

fungi

Living/Non Living things 2

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What is growth?

what is:

a permanent increase in size due to an increase in the number of cells.

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Name the features that makes living things different from Non-living things

What is

1. growth, 2. respiration, 3. irritability 4. movement 5. nutrition 6. Excretion 7. reproduction

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What is Biology?

What is the study of living things

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What do all living things have in common?

what is

All living things have time periods when they grow

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define respiration

what is

It is a process in which living things release the energy they need from food (ATP) and oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

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A place in a cell where nutrients, water and dissolved gasses are stored    V

Vacuole

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 E________ organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus

Eukaryotes

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The Centre for energy, where respirartion occurs MI____

Mitochondria

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Organisms that have both Respiration and photosynthesis happening in their cell

Plants

Living/Non living things 3

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Define Movement 

What is

The ability to change position or travel over a distance

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Give two examples of Irritability

What is

- when an animal shivers when it is cold

- when a plant grows towards the light

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what is irritability? 

What is 

The ability of the cell or organism to receive and respond to a stimulus in its environment 

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What is nutrition?

what is

 the assimilation by living organisms of food materials that enable them to grow, maintain themselves and reproduce. (Good Healthy Food)

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Define Excretion?

what is

the process by which animals rid themselves of waste products and of the nitrogenous by-products of metabolism or toxic substances from the cells and tissues of a plant or animal.

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A place where photosynthesis occurs in plant cells

Chloroplasts

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Organisms that contain only one Cell U___

Unicellular

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The process by which a cell replicates its chromosomes and then segregates them, producing two identical nuclei in preparation for cell division

MI_____ 

MITOSIS

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Cells that can only do Respiration and not Photosynthesis

Animal Cells

Living/Non living things 4

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Yeast is a kind of

a. bacteria

b. virus

c. fungus

d. amoeba

what is

c. fungus

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All of the following are living things except

a. cow

B. snail

c. mushroom

d. diamond

what is 

diamond

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What is Reproduction?

What is

The process of making the next generation

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Plants and animals are ..................... organisms.

a. single-celled 

b. multicellular

what is

multicellular

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what is yeast?

what is

Yeast is a microscopic, unicellular mushroom of ovoid or spherical shape.

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A semi pemeable Membrane or barrier in both plant and animal cells C----M____

Cell Membraine

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Organism that contain Many cell M_____

Multicellular

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M_______is a type of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in gametes

Meiosis

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Chemical equation for photosynthesis

Living/Non living things 5

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Mosses, pine trees  and Conifers are__________

a. flowering

b. non-flowering

what is

non-flowering

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All flowering plants produce___________ and ______.

what is

flowers and seeds 

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what type of plants are mango, akee and ornamental flowers;

a. flowering

b. non flowering

what is

flowering plants

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pine trees/Conifers do not have flowers but they produce pine cones. Do pine cones have seeds?

what is

yes

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Plants and animals are multicellular organisms.

what is Multicellular?

what is

having or consisting of many cells.

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Which type of cell was the first to appear on the planet?

prokaryote

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Examples of Unicellular organisms

Bacteria, Protozoa, Yeast,

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Pigment that makes leaves green

Chlorophyll

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Structures responsible for controlling all cell functions and also contains DNA

Nucleus