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27 Cards in this Set
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Energy
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The strenght to do active things withour getting tired.
The ability of something to do work. |
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Convert
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To make something into something else.
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Chlorophyll
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The green substance in plants that uses light to manufacture food from carbon dioxide and water.
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Choloroplasts
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Organelles that make food for the plant cell.
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Photosynthesis
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The process by which plants make food.
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Carbon Dioxide
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A gas that is a mixture of carbon and oxygen, with no color or odor.
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Oxygen
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A colorless gas found in the air that humans and animals need to breathe. It makes up 21% of the atmosphere.
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Control
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Something you keep the same in a scientific experiment in order to observe changes.
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Variable
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Changes you make in a scientific experiment.
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Cell
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The basic unit of structure and function of all living things.
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Cell Membrane
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The thin covering that encloses the cell and holds its parts together.
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Cell Wall
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The rigid layer that supports and protects a plant cell.
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Animal Cell
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a cell that is a structural and functional unit of an animal.
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Plant Cell
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a cell that is a structural and functional unit of a plant.
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Organelles
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A differentiated structure within a cell, such as a mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function.
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Nucleus
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The organelle that controls all of a plant and animal cell's activities.
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Vacuole
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An organelle that stores food, water, or wastes.
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Mitochondria
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Organelles that release energy from food.
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Traits
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Qualities or characteristics that make one person or thing different from another.
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Offspring
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An animal's or human's babies.
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Characteristics
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Certain qualities or features that someone or something has.
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Genes
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Parts of cells that are passed from parents to children and determine how you look and the way you grow.
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Inherited
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When you get a certain characteristic handed down to you from your parents.
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Dominant
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A gene that shows up over other genes in traits.
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Recessive
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A gene that doesn't show up as much in a trait.
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Chromosomes
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Threadlike structures in a cell that contain information about the characteristics of a plant or animal.
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Punnett Square
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A square used in genetics to calculate the frequencies of different genes.
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