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biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to do work | energy |
| to make energy from the sun | photosynthesis |
| organisms that make living matter | producers |
| living matter | biomass |
| self-feeders | autotroph |
| organisms that eat other organims | consumer |
| consumers are also known as | heterotrophs |
| animals that only eat plant | herbivors |
| Herbivores, are also known as | primary consumers |
| organisms that eat primary consumers for energy | secondary consumers |
| animals that only eat meat | carnivors |
| animals that eat secondary consumers | tertiary consumers |
| animals that have a diet of producers and consumers | Omnivors |
| mushrooms or bacteria's are | decomposers |
| Feeding levels are called | Tropic level |
| re-animating a call | cellular respiration |
| energy of motion | kinetic energy |
| energy stored | potential energy |
| chemical energy | |
| total amount of energy from random atoms | thermal energy |
| amount of energy needed to raise 1g water by a Celsius, | calorie |
| The main energy source cells use | ATP |
| type of cell division that produces four cells, each with half as many chromosomes as the parent cell. | meiosis |
| display of a person's 46 chromosomes | karyotype |
| one of a matching pair of chromosomes, one inherited from each parent | homologous chromosome |
| one of two chromosomes of the 23rd pair of human chromosomes, which determine an individual's gender | sex chromosome |
| having two homologous sets of chromosomes | diploid |
| egg or sperm sex cell that contains a single set of chromosomes, one from each homologous pair | gamete |
| having a single set of chromosomes | haploid |
| the fusion of the nucleus of a haploid sperm cell and the nucleus of a haploid egg cell, forming a diploid zygote | fertilization |
| diploid cell formed when the nucleus of a haploid sperm cell fuses with the nucleus of a haploid egg cell | zygote |
| group of four chromatids formed during prophase I of meiosis by the two sister chromatids in each of the two homologous chromosomes | tetrad |
| variation of a particular inherited character | trait |
| study of heredity | genetics |
| process by which sperm from one flower's pollen fertilizes the eggs in a flower of a different plant |