Living Things are Made of...
The basic unit of life
What is a cell?
A thin layer that surrounds and holds a cell together
What is a cell membrane?
When water, sugar and tea particles become equally mixed, what do they become?
What is a solution?
The process by which living things break down food
What is digestion?
The process by which living things produce offspring
What is reproduction?
The simplest single cells that carry out all basic life activities
What is bacteria?
A gel-like substance that contains chemicals needed by the cell
What is a Cytoplasm?
A sugar or starch, which living things use for energy
What is a carbohydrate?
The process by which living things release energy from food?
What is respiration?
What is found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's Disease and Mad Cow Disease?
What are proteins that have incorrect structures?
An instrument used to magnify things
What is a microscope?
The chemical inside of cells that stores information about an organism
What is DNA?
A chemical that stores large amounts of energy
What is a fat?
The process by which living things get rid of waste
What is excretion?
The simplest single cells that carry out all basic life activities
What is bacteria?
Groups of cells that are similar and act together to do a certain job
What are tissues?
A protein builder of a cell
What is a Ribosome?
Name 2 important functions of protein in the body
What is helping to repair damaged cells, build new cells, help to control heart rate and breaking down food in the body.
The ability of organisms to maintain their internal condition
What is homeostasis?
A protein builder of the cell
What is a Ribosome?
A tiny structure inside a cell
What is an organelle?
An organelle that uses oxygen to break down food and release energy in chemical bonds
What is Mitochiondrian (or what are Mitochondria which is the plural form)?
Name two chemicals found in foods that are needed in small amounts
What are vitamins and minerals?
Define "development"
What is becoming different or changing over time?
Name 3 similarities that both plants and animal cells have
What is they both are filled with cytoplasm, both have a nucleus, both have ribosomes, mitochondria and vacuoles?