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science ch 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Orgimisims | living things, such as plants animals and bactirea |
| Scale | relaitive size of things |
| Bactirea | tiny orginisms that are made up of one singlulair cell |
| Microorganisms | an orgimism that is to small to see with the naked eye |
| Cells | Tiny structures that make up little things and are the smallest units able to preform life functions |
| 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 particulair enviorment, such as a human body |
| Claim | a proposed anwser to a question about the natural world |
| Evidence | imformation about the natural world that is used to support or go against the claim |
| Reasoning | the process of making clear how your evidince supports your claim |
| Scientific Argument | claim supported by evidince |
| Prokaryotic | smallest simplest cells thta make up a single cell orginism and lack a nucleus |
| Eukaryotic | cells containing specilized internal organelles |
| Mitochondria | bean sheaped organelle that releases energy from glucse molecules for the cells used |
| Cell Membrane | Barrier around the cell thqat controls what goes in and out of the cell |
| Vacule | large storage organelle found in plants stores water food and sometimes waste |
| Choroplast | 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 spicific jobs |
| Cell division | when a parent cells duplicatees it contents and then dividedes into 2 ew cells |
| DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid | genetic information that is located in the nuclues and is passed from parent to offspring |
| Ribosomes | organelle that make proteins for the cell |
| Cytoplasm | gel like substance that fills the cell |
| Nucleus | the control center of the cell hlds the DNA |