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| holds the cell together and lets substances pass in and out of the cell |
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| found in plant cells and some protists but not in animal cells. It is stiff and gives a rigid shape to the cell. |
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| are organelles in some plant and protist cells. They contain chlorophyll, a substance that enables plants to store solar energy |
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| are structures inside the nucleus that are made up of genes. Genes carry the code for all the cell's traits and its activities. |
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| the watery gel inside the cell |
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| organelles in which energy is released from food |
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| allows substances to pass in and out of the nucleus |
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| spaces in the cytoplasm where food and chemicals are stored. |
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| the tendency of substances to move from an area of greater concentration to an area of lesser concentration |
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| the diffusion of water through a membrane |
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| the process by which green plants and other producers use light energy to make food |
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| the process in cells in which oxygen is used to release stored energy by breaking down sugar molecules |
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| a chemical change in which an organism breaks down sugar to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol or lactic acid |
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| the development of cells into different and specialized cell types |
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| a group of organs that work together to perform one or more functions |
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| a group of similar, specialized cells working together to carry out the same function |
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| any of various plantlike protists |
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| a microscopic one-celled alga with a glasslike cell wall |
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| a kind of alcohol used to make medicines, food products, and various other items |
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| Canned mushrooms, mold growing on old bread, and packets of yeast used for baking are all types of ________. |
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| made up of more than one cell. |
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| organisms, generally microscopic in size, that float or drift in the ocean |
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| any of a large group of mostly single celled microscopic organisms |
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| protists that have animal like traits |
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| an organism that lives on dead or decaying matter |
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| a reproductive cell that can develop into a new organism |
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| a large group of organisms that feed on dead organisms or that are parasitic |
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| a protien produced in the blood that destroys or weakens bacteria and other pathogens |
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| a substance, produced by microbes or fungi, that can destroy bacteria or stop their growth |
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| monerans that feed on dead organic matter or on living things |
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| monerans that contain chlorophyll |
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| a disease that can be passed from one individual to another |
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| a method of asexual reproduction in which a parent cell divides to form two new cells |
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| the body's system that defends the body against pathogens |
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| any of mostly one celled organisms in which the cell does not have a nucleus |
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| a relationship between two organisms in which at least one organism benefits |
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| a poison produced by an organism |
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| a preperation of dead or weakened bacteria or viruses that produces immunity to a disease |
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| a tiny disease causing life form consisting of genetic material wrapped inside a capsule of protein |
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| a part of a multicellular organism madeup of a group of tissues that work together to perform a certain function. |
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| a theory that states that cells are the basic units of structure and function of all living things. |
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| ________ are the basic units of all living things. |
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| ________ and ________ cells are not identical. |
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| All cells are bounded by a ___________ and contain cytoplasm. |
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| All ________ must carry out similar life processes. |
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| Van Leeudwenhoek is the first to see __________ organisms, which he calls "wee beasties" in 1674. |
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