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Microbiome
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organisms | living things, such as plants, animals, and bactiria |
| scale | the relative size of things |
| bactiria | tiny organisms that are made of a single cell |
| microorganisma | 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 units able to proform life funtions |
| microscope | 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 enviroment, such as the human body |
| claim | a proposed answer to a question |
| evidence | information about the natural world that is used to support or go against a claim |
| reasoning | the process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim |
| scientific argument | a claim supported by evidence |
| prokaryoic | smallest, simplest cells that make up a single cell organism and lack a nucleus |
| eukaryotic | cells containing specialized internal organelles |
| nucleus | the control center of the cell, holds the DNA |
| mitochondria | bean shaped organelle that releases energy from the glucose molecules |
| cell membrane | barrier around the cell that controls what goes in and out of the cell |
| vacuole | large storge organelle found iin plants, stores water food, and sometimes waste |
| chloroplast | organelles in plant cells that store chlorophyll where light energy is turned into glucose during photosynthesis |
| organelle | membrane bound structures within the cell that have specific jobs |
| cell devision | when a parent cells displicates it contents and the devides into 2 new cells |