Characteristics Of Life
The maintenance of this internal stability.
What is homeostasis?
Removing waste products from the organism through this process.
What is excretion?
This contains both carbon and hydrogen.
What are organic compounds?
These are groups of specialized cells.
What are tissues?
This is a large structure that controls the cell's metabolism and stores genetic information.
What is the nucleus?
The combination of all the chemical reactions that occur in an organism.
What is metabolism?
Breaking nutrients into smaller units to release the chemical energy stored in them through this process?
What is cellular respiration?
"Polypeptides with a unique amino acid sequence."
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What are proteins?
These are different kinds of tissues that may be combined to form these.
What are organs?
These are the storage containers within the cytoplasm of cells.
What are vacuoles?
Living things pass hereditary information to new organisms of the same type in this process.
What is reproduction?
Combining simple substances into complex substances during this process.
What is synthesis?
This means not able to be solubilized in water.
What is hydrophobic?
These are several organs that may work together to form this.
What are organ systems?
These are essential for the process of making proteins. Some float in the cytoplasm while others attach to the membranes of the cell.
What are ribosomes?
These living units of structure maintain their organization throughout life.
What are cells?
Increasing the size or number of cells through this process.
What is growth?
Examples of these are polysaccharides and simple sugars.
What are carbohydrates?
These are specialized cell structures.
What are organelles?
These are pod-shaped structures that contain special proteins, known as enzymes, used to extract energy from the nutrients.
What are mitochondria?
This is hereditary information.
What is DNA?
Organisms break these down after they obtain them from the environment and use them for transport.
What are nutrients?
What are nucleic acids?
This is the cell structural organization of organisms in order from simplest to most complex. *5 are required*
What is cell--->tissue--->organ--->organ system--->organism?
These are the structures found in plants and some one-celled organisms that contain chlorophyll.
What are chloroplasts?