Chapter 2 vocab
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Photosynthesis | The process by which plants and some other organisms capture the energy in sunlight and use it to make food.
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Pigment | A colored chemical compound that absorbs light
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Chlorophyll | green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria
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Stomata | Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen and cabon dioxide can move.
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Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food.
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Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food.
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Respiration | The process by which cells break down simple food molecules to release the energy they contain.
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Fermentation | The process by which cells break down moelcules to release energy without using oxygen.
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Cell Cycle | The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo.
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Interphase | The stage of the cell cycle that takes place before cell division occurs; during this stage, the cell grows, copies its DNA and prepares to divide.
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Replicaation | The process by which cells make a copy of the DNA and its neclus.
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Mitosis | The stage of the cell cycle during which the
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Chromosome | A doubled rod of condesened chromatin; contains DNA that carries genetic information.
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Chromatid | One of the identical rods of a chromosome.
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Cytokinesis | The final Stage of the cell cycle , in which the cell's cytoplasm divides, distribution organelles into each of the new cells.
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Cancer | A disease in which some body cells grow and divide uncontrollably , damageing the parts of the body around.
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Mutation | A change in a gene or chromosomes.
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Tumor | A mass of abnormal cells that develops when cancerous cells divide and grow uncontrollably.
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Chemothearpy | The use of drugs to kill cancer cells.
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