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Science -Term1 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| cell | the basic unit of structure and function |
| unicellular | single celled organism |
| multicellular | an organism composed of many cells |
| autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
| heterotroph | organism that cannot make its own food |
| homeostasis | the maintenance of stable conditions |
| classification | levels: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus |
| taxonomy | The scientific study of how things are classified |
| binomial nomenclature | the naming system Linnaeus used, the word binomial nomenclature means two names |
| Virus | tiny nonliving particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell |
| Host | an organism that lives in or on a host and causes it harm |
| flagellum | a long whiplike structure that helps a cell to move (found on bacteria cells) |
| bacteria | single celled organisms, prokaryotes, genetic material not contained by a nucleus |
| binary fission | bacteria's way of reproduction; one cell divides to form two identical parent cells (form of asexual reproduction) |
| asexual reproduction | the reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent |
| sexual reproduction | involves two parents who combine their genetic material to produce a new organism |
| conjugation | process in which a bacterium transfers some genetic material into another bacterium through a thin threadlike bridge that connects the two cells |
| endospore | a small, rounded, thick-walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell (contains cell’s genetic material and some of its cytoplasm |
| infectious disease | an illness that can pass from one organism to another |
| antibiotic resistance | the ability of bacteria to withstand the effects of an antibiotic |
| prokaryote | an organism that whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structures |
| nucleus | the dense area in a eukaryote cell that contains nucleic acids, the chemical instructions that direct the cell’s activities. |
| eukaryote | an organism whose cells contain nucli |
| algae | plant-like protists |
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