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Vocabulary 2 Features of Life and the Cell

Definitions

Reproduce: means to form offspring similar to the parents.

Development: is all the change that occur as living things grow.

Consumers: are living things that eat, or consume, other living things.

Producers: are iving things that make, or produce, theri own food.

Cellular Respiration: is the process by which food broken down and energy is relesead.

Cell: is the basic unit of all living things.

Adaptation: a trit that makes a living thing better able to survive.

Cell Membrane:gives the cell shape and holds the cytoplasm.

Nucleus: is the cell part that controls most of the cell`s activities.

Nuclear Menbrane: is a structure that surrounds the nucleus and separates it from the rest of the cell.

Nucleolus: is the cell part that hepls make ribosome.

Chrokmosomes: are cell parts with information that determinates what traits a living things will have.

Cytoplasm: the clear, jellylike material between the cell menbrane and the nucleus that makes up mostof the cell.

Ribosomes: are the cell part where proteins are made.

Mitochondria are the cell part that produce energy from food that has been digested.

Vacuole: is a liquid-filled space that stores food, water, and minerals.

Centrioles: are the cell parts that help with cell reproduction.

Chloroplasts: are cellparts that contain the green pigment,chrlorophyll.

Cell Wall: is a thick outer covering outside the cell membrane.

Diffusion: the movement of substance from where ther is a large amount of it to where there is a small amount of it.

Osmosis: the movement of water acrossnthe cell membrane.

Tissue: is a group of similar cells that work togethere to carry out a special job.

Organ: is a group of tissues that work together todo a job.

Organ System: a group of organs that work together to do certain job.

Organism: is a living thing.

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1 Reproduce