Unit 1 vocab
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| A living thing | organisms
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| the basic unit of structure and function in living things | cell
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| a type of organism that is made up of a single cell | unicellular
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| a type of oraganism that is made up of many cells | multicellular
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| the process of cahnge that occurs during an oraganisms life to produce a more complex organism | development
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| a change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react | stimulus
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| in action of change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus | response
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| the production of offspring that are similar to the parents | reproduce
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| the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources | spontaneous generation
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| an experiment in which all of the variables except for one remian the same | controlled environment
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| the one factor that a scientist changes to test a hypothisis during an experiment; also called the indenpendent variable | manipulated variable
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| an organism that makes its own food | autotrophs
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| an organism that cannot make his own food | heterotrophs
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| the process by which an organisms internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment | homeostasis
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| an instrument that makes small objects look larger | microscope
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| a light microscope that has more than one lense | compund microscope
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| a widley accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things | cell theory
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| the ability to make things look larger than they are | magnification
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| the ability to clearly distinguish the individual parts of an object | resolution
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| a rigid layer of non living material that surrounds the cells of plants and some other organisms | cell wall
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| the outside boundary of a cell; controls which substance can enter or leave the cell | cell membrane
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| the control center of a cell that directs the cells activities; contains the chemical instructions that direct all the cells activities an determine the cells charactercitis | nucelus
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| material in cell that contains DNA and caries gentic information | chromatin
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| the region of a cell located inside the cell membrane or between the cell membrane or between the cell membrane and nucelus; contains a gel-like material and cell organalles | cytoplasm
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| rod-shaped cell structure that produce most of the energy headed to carry out the cells functions | mitochondria
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| a cell structure that forms a maze of passageways in which proteins and other materials are carried from one part of the cell to another | endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
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| a tiny structure in the cytoplasm of the cell were proteins are made | ribosomes
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| a structure in a cell that receives proteins and other newly formed materials from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), packages them, and distributes them to other parts of the cell | golgi bodies
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| a structure in the cells of plants a some other organisms that capture energy from sunlight and uses it to produce food | chloroplasts
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| a water-filled sac inside a cell that acts like a storage area | vacuole
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| a small round cell structure that contains chemiclas that breakdown large food particals into smaller ones | lysosomes
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| an organism whose cells lack a nucleus an some other cell structures | prokaryotes
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| an organism wiht cells that contain nuclei and other cell structure | eukaryotes
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| the preserve remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past | fossil
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