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MidTerms
Chapter 1 & 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cell | basic part of all living things |
| kingdom | one of five groups large into which scientists classify all organisms |
| protist | a one-celled organism |
| animal | many celled organism |
| plant | many celled organism that stays on ground |
| fungi | fungi is fungus. is a plantlike living thing that does not contain chlorophyll |
| moneran | a one-celled organism that does not have a nucleus |
| cell membrane | a structure that surrounds and protects the cell |
| nucleus | the control center of the cell |
| cytoplasm | the jellylike material that surrounds and protects the cell |
| cell wall | a stiff structure outside the cell membrane of some cells |
| chloroplasts | |
| chlorophyll | green substance found in plants that is used for making food for the plant |
| vacuole | liquid filled sac in a protist |
| chromosomes | threadlike structure in the nucleus of the cell that carry information about the characteristics of all living things |
| protoplasm | all the substance within the cell including the nucleus |
| ameba | one celled animallike protist that has false feet |
| psudepods | false feet of an ameba |
| paramecium | one-celled animallike protist |
| cilia | tiny hairlike structures on a paramecium |
| euglena | animallike protist that moves with flagellum |
| flagellum | whiplike structure attached to the mouth region |
| mushrooms | fungi that can be a parasite or scavenger |
| spore | single cell that can grow into a new organism |
| yeast | single celled organisms that is used to make bread |
| mildew | fungi that live in damp places LIKE A SHOWER |
| bacteria | ex of a moneran |
| virus | a thing that seems to be alive but is not made of cells |
| nuclear membrane | surrounds and protects the nucleus |
| diatom | ex. of plantlike protist |
| diffusion | process in which food, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and wastes products move in and out of cells |
| respiration | process in living things in which oxygen combines with food, releasing energy from the food |
| mitosis | cell division, process in which one cell divides forming two new cells |
| problem | a question or problem you can test |
| research | background info about a scientific problem |
| hypothesis | educated guess based on research |
| procedure | steps you will follow to test a problem |
| materials | list of things you will need in the experiment |
| experiment | the actual testing of the problem |
| data | info gathered during experiment |
| observation | any changes notices during experiment |
| conclusion | statements about the result of experiment |
| theory | final factual statement about the results |
| vertebrate | animal with backbone |
| invertebrates | animal without backbone |
| pore | small hole or opening in a sponge |
| sponge | organism that has pores |
| spicules | needlelike parts of a sponge |
| stinging cell animal | animal that has tentacles for catching prey |
| stinging cell | cell that contains a poisonous thread |
| tentacles | an arm like part around the mouth of a stinging cell animal |
| flatworm | a type of worm that has 1 body opening |
| roundworm | type of worm that is a parasite and it has 2 body openings |
| segmented worm | type of worm that is divided into segments |
| mollusk | invertebrate with a soft body |
| mantle | a fleshy covering that protects the organs of mollusks |
| body mass | where all eternal organs are located |
| univalve | one shelled mollusk |
| bivalve | two shelled mollusk |
| cephalopod | mollusk with no shell or eternal shell |
| foot | where animals move |
| arthropod | an animal with jointed legs, segmented body, and hard outer covering |
| exoskeleton | the hard outer covering of arthropods |
| molt | to shed the outer body covering |
| scavenger | an authropod that feeds of of dead and decaying things |
| parasite | authropod that lives in living things and harms that living thing which it feeds |
| crustacean | arthropod with two body sections |
| insect | authropod with 3 body segments |
| head | where mouth and most of the sense organs are located |
| antenna | sense organs are used |
| thorax | where legs are located |
| abdomen | where other organs are located |
| arachnid | arthropod with no antennas |
| chilopod | authropod with more than 3 segments |
| diplopod | authropod with more than 3 segments |
| setae | hairlike structures |
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