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Cells and Energy
Question | Answer |
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Smallest unit of living things. | Cell |
Part of the cell where energy is made through cellular respiration. | Mitochondria |
Part of the plant cell where photosynthesis occurs. | Chloroplast |
The control center for the cell. | Nucleus |
Part of cell where proteins are made. | Ribosomes |
Part of the cell where water, food, and waste is stored. | Vacuole |
Sugar molecule used for energy. | Carbohydrate |
Organic compound that makes up fats and oils in living things. | Lipid |
Organelle compound made of amino acids, that does the work in a cell. | Protein |
Molecules that carry the instructions for the cell (RNA and DNA.) | Nucleic Acid |
Sugar made from carbon, hydrogen, and 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 |