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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 the 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 chloroplasts, algae, and some bacteria. |
| Cellular Respiration | The process in which oxygen and glucose undergo a complex series of chemical reactions inside cells, releasing energy, |
| Fermention | The process in sexual reproduction in which an egg cell and a sperm join to form a new cell. |
| 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, during which a cell grows and makes a copy of its DNA. |
| Replication | The process by which a cell makes a copy of the DNA in it's nucleus before cell division. |
| Chromosome | A threadlike structure within a cell's nucleus that contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next. |
| Mitosis | The second stage of the cell cycle during which the cells's nucleus divides into two new new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell. |
| Cytokinesis | The final stage of the cell cycle in which the cell's cytoplasm divides, distributing the organelles into each of the two new daughter cells. |