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Science december
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organisms | living things such as plants animals and bacteria |
| scale | the relative size of things |
| bacteria | tiny organisms that are made of a single cell |
| microorganisms | an organism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye |
| cells | tiny structure that make up all living things and are the smallest untils able to perform life functions |
| microscopic | too small to be seen with the naked eye |
| molecules | a group of atoms bonded together |
| microbiome | all of the microorganisms that live in a particular environment such as a human body |
| claim | a proposed answer to a question about the natrual world |
| evidence | information about the natural world that is used to support it go againsed a claim |
| reasoning | the process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim |
| scientific argument | a claim supported by evidence |
| prokaryotic | smallest simplest cells that make up single cell organism and lack a nucleus |
| eurkaryotic | cells containing specilaized internal organelles |
| nucleus | the controlcnter of the cell holds the DNA |
| mitochondria | bean shaped organelle that releases energy from glucose molecules for the cell to use |
| cell memvrane | barrier around the cell that cin rtols what goes in and out of the cell |
| vauole | large storage organelle found in plants stores water food and sometimes waste |
| choroplast | organelles in plant cells that store chloorophyll where light energy is turned into glucose during photosynthesis |
| organelle | membrane bound structures within the cell that have specific jobs |
| cell division | when a parent cells duplices it contents and then divined into 2 new cells |
| DNA dexyribonuclecic Acid | genetic information that is located n the nucleus and is passed form parent to offfspring |
| ribosomes | organelle that ame proteins for the cell |
| cytoplasm | gel like substance that fills hee cell |