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AIDS
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
fatal disease that is caused by the HIV virus and suppresses the body's ability to fight other diseases |
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cell membrane
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cell's permeable boundary that allows oxygen and food into the cell and lets waste leave
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cell theory
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3 part theory of life science
1- all organisms are mad of one or more cells 2- the cell is the basice unit of life 3- all cells come from other cells |
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cell wall
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rigid structure surrounding plant cell membranes
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chloroplast
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plant organelle that traps energy while photosynthesis occurs
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chromatin
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material in nuclei that carries hereditary information
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compound light microscope
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microscope that magnifies objects by using light and convex lenses
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cytoplasm
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fluid that surrounds organelles in a cell
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endoplasmic reticulum
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organelles that move material in a cell
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electron microscope
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microscope that magnifies objects by bending beams of electrons... more powerful that a light microscope
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Golgi body
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organelles that package and transport porteins out of a cell
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lysosome
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organelle that digests food, worn out cell parts, and wastes
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nucleus
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organelle containing chromosomes; controls the cell's activities
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organ
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two or more tissues that work together to perform a bodily function
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organelle
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structure within a cell's cytoplasm
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ribosome
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organelle that makes proteins
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tissue
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group of similar cells that work together to perform the same kind of work
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vaccine
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substance that causes the body to resist infection or develop immunity to a specific virus
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virus
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disease causing microscopic particle that invades, and often kills, a cell
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