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microbiome
science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organisms | living things, such as plants animals, and bacteria |
| scale | the relative size of things |
| microorgainsms | an organisms that is too small to be seen with the naked eye |
| cells | tiny structure that make up all living things and are the smaller units able to perform life functions |
| mircoscopic | 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 a human body |
| claim | a proposed answer to a question about the natural world |
| evidence | information bout 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 |
| bacterira | tiny organisms that are made of a single cell |
| prokaryotic | smallest, simplest cells that make up single cell organism and lack of nucleus |
| eukayotic | cells containing specialized internal organelles |
| nucleus | the control center of the cell, holds the DNA |
| mitochondria | bean shaped organelle that releases enegery 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 engery is turned into glucose during photosynthesis |
| organelle | membrane bound structures within the cell that have specific jobs |
| cell division | when a parent cells duplicates it contents and than dividends into 2 new cells |
| DNA deoxyriboncleic Acid | genetic information that is located in the nucleus, and is passed from parent to offspring |
| ribosomes | organella that make proteins for the cell |
| cytoplasm | gel like substance that fills the cell |