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Microbiome
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria |
| Scale | the relative size of things |
| Bacteria | tiny organisms that are made of a single cell |
| Microorganism | 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 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 natural world |
| 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 |
| prokaryotic | smallest, simplest cells that make up 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 glucose molecules for the cell to use |
| cell membrane | barrier around the cell that controls what goes in and out of the cell |
| vacuole | large storage organelle found in plants, stores water, food, and sometimes waste |
| chloroplast | organelles in plant cells that store chlorophyll where light energy is turned into glucose during phoyosynthesis |
| cell devision | when a parent cell duplicates it contents and then divides into 2 new cells |
| DNA deoxyribonucleic acid | genetic information that is located in the nucleus, and is passed from parent from parent to offspring |
| cytoplasm | gel like substance that fills the cell |