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Cells & Energy
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Question | Answer |
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Smallest unit of living things | Cell |
Part of the cell where energy is made through celluar respiration | Mitochondria |
part of the plant cell where photosythesis occurs | Chloroplast |
The control center for the cell | Nucleus |
Part of cell where proteins are made | Ribosomes |
Part of cell where water, food, & waste is stored | Vacuole |
Sugar molecule used for energy | Carbohydrate |
Organic compound that makes up fats & oils in living things | Lipid |
Org. compound made if amino acids, that does the work in a cell | Protein |
molecules that carry the instructions for the cell (RNA & DNA). | Nucleic Acid |
Sugar made from carbon, hydrogen, & oxygen | Glucose |
Process plant cells use to make glucose | Photosynthesis |
Pigment in chloroplast that traps the energy in sunlight | Chlorophyll |
Process all living things do when using oxygen to release energy from glucose | Cellular Respiration |
Type of cellular reproduction where cells make a copy of themselves | Mitosis |
Type of cellular reproduction where cells copy then divide to create sex cells. | Meiosis |