Vocab for Chapter 2
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| photosynthesis | The process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food.
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| autotroph | Is an organism that can make its own food.
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| heterotroph | Is an organism that cannot make its own food and relies on eating other organisms for food.
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| pigments | Are colored chemical compounds that absorb light.
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| chlorophyll | Is the main photosynthetic pigment in chloroplasts.
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| stomata | Is were carbon dioxide enters the plant through small openings on the underside of the leaves.
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| respiration | Is the process by which cells obtain energy from glucose.
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| fermentation | Is an energy-releasing process that does not require oxygen.
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| cell cycle | Is the regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo.
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| interphase | Is the first stage of the cell cycle, the cell grows, makes a copy of its DNA, and prepares to divide into two cells.
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| replication | Is when the cell makes an exact copy of the DNA in its nucleus.
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| mitosis | Is the second stage in the cell cycle, one copy of the DNA is distributed into each of the two daughter cells.
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| chromosomes | Are the threadlike chromatin in the nucleus that condense and form double-rod structures.
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| chromatid | Is the name for each identical rod in a chromosome.
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| cytokinesis | Is the final stage in the cell cycle, the cytoplasm divides, organelles are distributed into each of the two new cells.
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| Cancer | Is a disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollable, damaging the parts of the body around them.
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| mutation | Is when damage causes a change in the DNA.
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| tumor | Is a mass of abnormal cells that develops when cancerous cells divide and grow uncontrollably.
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| Chemotherapy | Is the use of dugs to treat a disease.
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