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Vocabulary unit 2-3

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1) Exocytosis Move outside cell
2) Autolysis Move inside cell
3) Prokaryote A cell with neither a nucleus with a membrane or organelles
4) Eukaryote A cell with a defined nucleus
5) Cell Theory One of the basic foundations of biology
6) Osmosis An example of facilitated diffusion
7) Active Transport Movement of molecules across a cell membrane
8) Potential Energy Stored energy
9) Kinetic Energy Energy in motion
10) Metabolism All of the chemical reactions occuring in the cell at one time
11) Photosynthesis Changing light energy into food
12) Autotroph Self feeders (plants)
13) Heterotroph Eat other organisms to get their food
14) Endergonic Requires input of energy
15) Exergonic Releases energy
16) Anaerobic Requires no oxygen
17) Aerobic Requires oxygen
18) Energy Allows work to be done
19) Chloroplast Organelle that contains chlorophyll in which photosynthesis takes place
20) Chlorophyll A natural pigment in plants that gives them their color
21) Cellular Respiration A process that uses oxygen to help breakdown food molecules such as sugars
22) Photosystem ll Light energy is absorbed and produces high energy electrons
23) Photosystem l Where electrons are energized
24) Calvin Cycle Takes place in the stroma, divided into 3 phases
25) Mitocondria Organelle found in most cells
26) Chemosis Is a process within the ETC it drives the production of ATP
27) Alcoholic Fermentation Sugars are converted into cellular energy
28) Lactic Acid Fermentation Anaerobic process which sugars are converted into cellular energy
29) Glucose photosynthesis creates food we eat, our body breaks it down into glucose
30) ATP Currency of life that all cells use
31) Gamete reproductive cell in an animal or plant cell
32) Sexual Two parents give genetic material to produce offspring that are genetically different from their parents
33) Asexual Simplest, most efficient way of reproduction, requires only 1 parent
34) Mitosis Dividing of two identical daughter cells
35) Cytokinesis Separation of the cytoplasm of the original cell into two cells
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