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DOL 3 2025
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reproduction | The production of offspring. |
| cilia | The hair like projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike manner. |
| Amoeba | A kind of single celled organism that uses cytoplasm to make "fake feet" called pseudopods to move around. |
| oral groove | Where a paramecium or Bursaria takes in food. |
| cell membrane | A thin, flexible barrier around a cell; regulates what enters and leaves the cell |
| paramecium | |
| cell | Basic and smallest unit of life |
| Field of View | The area visible through the microscope eyepiece |
| digestive enzymes | They break down food in a cell |
| unicellular | An organism consisting of one cell. |
| multicellular | An organism consisting of many cells |
| contractile vacuole | Vacuole that pumps water out of cell. |
| ribosome | Makes proteins. |
| nucleus | Control center of the cell. |
| organelle | Specialized structure that performs important cellular functions within a eukaryotic cell. |
| organism | Any living thing. |
| Eukaryote | Organism whose cells contain a nucleus. |
| prokaryote | Unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus. |
| cytoplasm | A jellylike fluid inside the cell in which the organelles are suspended. |
| protist | A unicellular organism that belongs to the kingdom Protista. |
| Euglena | A green, single celled organism that has both chloroplasts and vacuoles. Moves around using a flagella. |
| chlorophyll | Green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis |
| chloroplast | An organelle found in plant and algae cells where photosynthesis occurs. |
| photosynthesis | Process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to make their own food |
| cytoplasmic streaming | The motion of cytoplasm in a cell that results in a coordinated movement of the cell's contents. |
| Bursaria truncatella | Organism with cilia and extremely large body (visible with the naked eye), with large, wide mouth |
| gas exchange | Process of oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer. |
| bacteria | Single celled, small, prokaryotic organisms. |
| diatoms | Unicellular algae that have a unique glass cell walls that are left behind and have unique shapes. |
| elodea | An aquatic plant. |
| Robert Hooke | Coined the term "cell" and used a microscope to look at cork cells. |
| Antoni van Leeuwenhoek | Dutch linen merchant. First to observe living microbes. Single lens microscope magnified 300X. |
| Archaea | Domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidoglycan. (extremophiles) |
| vacuole | A sac inside a cell that acts as a storage area |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid. |
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