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Cells Chapter1Vocab
Cellls
Term | Definition |
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Metabolism | Blank is another characteristic of living things. |
Ingestion | Placing food in your mouth. |
Digestion | The breaking down of food |
Respiration | The process which living things take in oxygen . |
Excretion | The process of getting rid of waste materials. |
Life span | Blank is the maximum length of time a particular organism can be expected to live. |
Stimulus | A blank is any change in the environment , or surroundings,of an organism that produces a response by that organism. |
Response | A blank is some action, movement, or change in behavior of the organism |
Sexual Reproduction | Blank is usually done by two Male and Female parents to make another Human Being. |
Asexual | Living things that reproduce by itself |
Food | edible items |
Water | Liquid that keeps you alive |
Homeostasis | Blank is the ability of an organism to keep conditions inside its body the same, even though conditions in its external environment change. |
Elements | An blank is a pure substance that cannot be broken down into any simpler substances by ordinary means. |
Organic compound | Most of the compunds in living things contain carbon ,which is usually combined with other gases and create a compound called Blank |
Carbohydrates | Blank are made of the elements carbon,hydrogen,and oxygen |
Fat Oils | Another group of energy rich compounds made of carbon,hydrogen,and oxygen are fats and oils. |
Proteins | Like carbohydrates and fats, blank are organic compounds made up of carbon,hydrogen,and oxygen. |
Amino Acids | The building blocks of proteins are blank |
Enzymes | A special type of protein that regulates chemical activities within the body is called an blank |
Nucleic Acids | :Do you remember the “Blueprints” of life we discussed earlier in this chapter?These blueprints are organic chemicals called blank acids. |
Dna | Blank also carries “messages” about an organism that are passed from parent to offspring. |
Rna | Blank “reads” the message carried by dna and guides the protein making process |