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Biology regents 2
Characteristics of living things/homeostasis
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Autotrophs | they make their own food |
| Heterotrophs | they eat other oranisms |
| Photosynthesis | carried out by plants. It takes radiant energy from the sun and puts it into sugar molecules. Occurs mostly in the chloroplasts of plant cells |
| stomates | small holes in leaves to exchange gasses |
| guard cells | they open and close the stomates |
| respiration | organisms get energy by breaking the bonds of sugar molecules. The released energy is ATP |
| aerobic respiration | this requires oxygen and yields more ATP (energy) |
| anaerobic respiration | no oxygen is required to yield the ATP |
| Active Transport | moving molecules from a low concentration to a high concentration |
| osmosis | the diffusion of water into or out of the cell |
| diffusion | the movement of molecules from high concentrations to low concentrations |
| stimulus | a change in the environment that you respond to |
| neuron | a nerve cell |
| impulse | the electrical signal carried by nerves |
| hormone | a chemical signal (insulin, adrenaline, testosterone) |
| receptor molecules | proteins on the surface of the cell membrane that receive signals from the nervous system |