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SCIENCE VOCAB1_
ALL THE SCIENCE VOCAB I NEED TO KNOW! YAY!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| cell | the basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
| unicellular | a single celled organism |
| multicellular | an organism composed of many cells |
| autotroph | an organism that makes it's own food |
| heterotroph | an organism that cannot make it's own food |
| homeostasis | the maintenance of stable conditions |
| classification | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, |
| taxonomy | the scientific study of how living things are classified |
| binomial nomenclature | the naming system Linnaeus used |
| virus | a tiny, nonliving particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell |
| host | an organism that provides a source of energy for another organism |
| parasite | an organism that lives in or on a host and causes it harm |
| bacteriophage | a virus that infects bacteria |
| bacteria | single celled organisms, prokaryotes, genetic material is not contained by nucleus |
| flagellum | a long, whip like structure that helps a cell move |
| binary fission | bacteria's way of reproduction; one cell divides into two identical cells |
| conjugation | one of the way bacteria reproduces, when bacterium transfers genetic material into another bacterium through a thin bridge |
| endospore | small, rounded, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell |
| eukaryote | cells that have a nucleus |
| prokaryote | cells that have a nucleus |
| nucleus | the "center" that controls the cells |
| infectious diseases | illnesses that pass from one organism to another |
| antibiotic resistance | results when some bacteria are able to survive in the presence of an antibiotic |
| vaccine | a substance introduced into the body to stimulate the production of chemicals that destroy specific viruses or bacteria |
| symbiosis | a close relationship in which at least one of the species benefits |
| protist | eukaryotes that cannot be classified as animals, plants, or fungi |
| cilia | hairlike projections that move with a wave-like motion |
| protozoan | animal-like protists |
| psuedopod | temporary bulges of the cell |
| algae | plantlike protists |
| algal bloom | rapid growth of a population of algae |
| fungi | eukaryotes that have cell wall, are heterotrophs that feed by absorbing their food, and use spores to reproduce |
| hyphae | the branching, threadlike tubes that make up bodies of multicellular fungi |
| fruiting bodies | reproductive structures in which fungi produce spore |
| budding | a form of asexual reproduction in which no spores are produced, and instead a small yeast cell grows from the body of a parent cell, then breaks away and lives on its own |
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