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Ultimate Vocab Stack
| cell | The basic unit of structure and function in all living things |
| organism | A living thing |
| nucleus | The brain of the cell |
| cell membrane | Surrounding of the plant cell |
| cell wall | Supports and protects a plant cell |
| cytoplasm | A jellylike substance containing chemicals that help the cell stay healthy |
| chloroplast | Makes food for cell |
| multi-cell organism | An organism that has more than one cell |
| single-cell organism | A celled organism |
| microorganism | An organism that is too small to be seen with the unaided eye |
| chromosome | A threadlike structure in the nucleus, made up of DNA |
| inherited trait | A characteristic passed from parents to their off spring |
| dominant trait | A trait that appears even if an organism has only one factor for the trait |
| recessive trait | A trait that appears only if an organism has two factors for the trait |
| gene | The part of a chromosome that contains the DNA code for an inherited trait |
| instinct | A behavior that an organism inherits |
| learned behavior | A behavior that an animal acquires through experience |
| classification | The process of grouping similar things together |
| kingdom | A major, large group of similar organisms |
| species | A single kind of organism that reproduce can among its own kind |
| vertebrate | An animal with a backbone |
| invertebrate | An animal without a backbone |
| mammal | An animal that gives live birth and has hair and warm blooded |
| bird | An animal that has wings and lays eggs and has feathers |
| reptile | A scaly animal that lays eggs on land |
| amphibians | A slimy like animal that lays eggs in water and sometimes goes on land |
| fish | An organism that has scaly skin and lays eggs in water breaths with gills in the water and turns the water into oxygen |
| electric charge | A basic property of the tiny particles that make up matter; it can be positive or negotiate |
| static electricity | The buildup of electric charges in one place |
| electric current | A flow of electric charge |
| electric circuit | A continuous pathway that can carry an electric current |
| series circuit | An electric circuit with only one path that current can flow |
| parallel circuit | An electric circuit with two or more paths that current can follow |
| resistance | The measure of how much a material opposes the flow of electric current |
| short circuit | A flaw in a circuit that enables current to flow where it is not wanted |
| conductor | A material trough which heat or electricity flows easily |
| insulator | A material that slows the flow of heat or electricity |
| electromagnet | A device made up of a current carrying wire coil around an iron core |
| physical change | A change in which a substance remains the same substance |
| mixture | A combination of two or more different substance |
| physical property | A trait such as color, shape, or hardness that describes substance by itself |
| chemical property | A property that involves the ability of a substance to react with other materials to form a new substances |
| chemical change | A change in which a substance or two becomes a new substance two |
| compound | A substance made up of two or more different elements |
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