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Biology
9th Grade
11/16/2010

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cell
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the smallest unit that can per form all life processes
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cell theory
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all things are made up of one or more cells
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plasma membrane
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the cell's outer boundary
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nucleus
Definition
an amtom's central reagion
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organelle
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one of the small bodies that are found in the cytoplasm of a cell
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organ system
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cytoplasm
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the region of the cell within the membrane that includes the fluid
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cytosol
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the soluble portion of the cytoplasm
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prokaryote
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a single-celled organism that has no nucleus
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eukaryote
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an oranism made up of cells that have a nucleus enclosed by a membrane
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tissue
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a collection of specialized cells
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organ
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a collection of tissues that carry out a ssecialized function of the body
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phospholipid bilayer
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a dubble layer of phospholipids that makes up plasma
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chromosome
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in a eukaryotic cell
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nuclear envelpe
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the dubble membrane that surrounds the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell
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nucleolus
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the part of the eukaryotic nucleus where ribosomal RNA is synthesized
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ribosome
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a cell organelle composed of RNA
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mitochondrion
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in eukaryotic cells
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endoplasmic reiculum
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a system of membranes that is found in a cell's cytoplasm
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Golgi apparatus
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cell organelle that helps make and package materials to be transpoted out of the cell
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lysosome
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a cell organelle that contains digestive enzymes and that buds from the Golgi apparatus
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cytoskeleton
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the cytoplasmic network of protein filaments that plays an essential role in cell movement, shape, and division
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microtuble
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one of the small, tubular fibers composed of the protein tubulin that are found in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, that compose the cytoskeleton, and that play a role in cell structure and movement
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microfilament
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a fiber found inside eukaryotic cells that is composed mainly of the protein actin and that has a role in cell structure and movement
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cilium
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a hairlike structure arranged in tightly packed rows that projects from the surface of some cells
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flagellum
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a long, hairlike structure that grows out of a cell and enables the cell to move
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centriole
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an organelle that is active during mitosis
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cell wall
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cental vacuole
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plastid
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chloroplast
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thylakoid
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