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Cell Bio Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nature | everything in the universe except what humans have manufactured. |
| Atoms | Building blocks of all substances, living and nonliving. |
| Molecules | Atoms joined together by other atoms. |
| Cell | the smallest unit of life that can survive and reproduce on its own. |
| Organism | an indiviual that consists of one or more cells. |
| Population | a group of ind. of the same kind of organism, or species, living in a specified area. |
| Community | consists of all populations of all species in a specified area. |
| Ecosystem | A community interacting with its physical and chemical enviornment. |
| Biosphere | encompasses all regions of Earth's crust, waters, and atmosphere in which organisms live. |
| Emergent Property | a characteristic of a system that does not appear in any of its component parts. |
| Energy | The capacity to do work |
| Nutrient | a type of atom or molecule that has an essential role in growth and survival and that an organism can't make for itself |
| Producers | acquire energy and simple raw materials from enviornmental sources and make their own food. |
| Photosynthesis | Plants use sunlight to make sugars from CO2 and water. |
| Consumers | obtain energy indirectly by eating producers. |
| Receptor | a molecule or cellular structure that respomds to a specific form of stimulation, such as the energy, of light or the mechanical energy of a bite. |
| DNA | signature molecule of life. |
| Homeostasis | The adjustment in change of your enviorment. |
| Traits | An ind. distinct features. |
| Inheritance | The transmission of DNA from parents to offspring. |
| Reproduction | mechanisms to which parents transmit DNA to offspring. |
| Species | kind of organism, we assign it a 2 part name. |
| Genus | group of species that share a unique set of features. |
| Bacteria | Single-celled organism |
| Archaens | Single-celled organism |
| Eukaryote | Start out life with a nucleus. |
| Protists | Simplest kind if Euaryote |
| Fungi | decomposers that secrete enzymes that digest food outside of the body. |
| Plants | multicellular species |
| Animal | are multicellular consumers that ingest tissues, or juices of other organisms. |