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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the smallest living part of an organism? | Cell |
| What is the structure in a cell that controls everything the cell does. | Nucleus |
| Any living thing. | Organism |
| What is the green substance in plant leaves that capture the energy in sunlight. | Chlorophyll |
| What are the tiny green structure that contains chlorophyll and is found in a leaf | Chloroplasts |
| The body part of an organism...such as the ear or plant stem | Structure |
| The job that the body part does in an organism | Function |
| A characteristic that is passed from parent to their offspring. Such as hair color, eye color and shape. | Inherited traits |
| A trait that COVERS another trait when present. Example: Black hair color. The capital letter in a Punnett square | Dominate trait |
| A trait that is covered or hidden. Example: red hair. The lower case letter in a Punnett square | Recessive trait |
| A threadlike strand inside the nucleus that is made up of DNA. (Puffy X) | Chromosome |
| A behavior that an organism inherits. | Instinct |
| Structures on a chromosome that contain the DNA code for a trait an organism inherits. | Genes |
| A behavior that an animal has been taught or has learned from experience | Learned behaviors |
| The organelle that controls all of a cell's activities. The chromosomes are in the nucleus of each cell | Nucleus |