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ch.2 plant cells
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| photosynthesis | the process by which plants and other autotrophs capture and use light energy to make food from carbon dioxide and water |
| autotroph | an organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food |
| heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things |
| chlorophyll | a green photosynthetic pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants algae and some bacteria |
| cellular respiration | the process in which oxygen and glucose undergo a complex series of chemical reactions inside cells releasing energy |
| fermentation | the process by which cells release energy by breaking down food molecules without using oxygen |
| cell cycle | the series of events in which a cell grows prepares for division and divides to form two daughter cells |
| interphase | the first stage of the cell cycle that takes place before cell division occurs |
| replication | the process by which a cell makes a copy of the DNA in its nucleus before cell division |
| chromosome | a threadlike structure within a cells nulcleus tat contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next |
| mitosis | the second stage of the cell cycle during which the cells nucleus divides into to two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell |
| cytokinesis | the final stage of the cell cycle in which the cells cytoplasm divide distributing the organelles into each of the two new daughter cells |
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