Unit 2 - Cell Processes Vocabulary

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Active Transport

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The movement of materials through a cell membrane using energy

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Passive Transport

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The movement of materials through a cell membrane without using energy

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Osmosis

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The diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane

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Diffusion

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The process by which molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration

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Respiration

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The process by which cells obtain energy from glucose

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Photosynthesis

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The process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

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Prokaryotic

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An organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and some other cell structures

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Eukaryotic

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An organism whose cells contain nuclei

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Virus-A tiny

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nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell

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Bacteria

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Unicelluar organisms that lack a nucleus; prokaryotes

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Protists

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Unicellular organisms that contain a nucleus; eukaryotes. Examples include amoeba, paramecium & euglena

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Flagella

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A long whiplike structure that helps a cell to move

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Cilia

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The hairlike projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike manner.

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Exocytosis

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Method to move molecules out of a cell

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Endocytosis

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Method to move molecules into a cell

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Chromatid

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Identical sister chromosomes connected by a centromere just before cell division