7th Science Vocabulary Final

The movement of materials across a cell membrane using cellular energy and special proteins...

• Active Transport

• Diffusion

• Osmosis

• Endocytosis

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An energy-rich organic compound, such as a sugar or a starch, that is made of the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen...

• Protein

• Lipid

• Carbohydrate

• Nucleic Acid

The basic unit of structure and function in living things...

• Cell

• Tissue

• Organ

• Organelles

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The series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells...

• Binary fission

• Cell Cycle

• Endocytosis

• Photosynthesis

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The process in which glucose is broken down using oxygen to release large amounts of energy in cells...

• Photosynthesis

• Fermentation

• Cellular Respiration

• Mitosis

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A green photosynthetic pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria...

• Tannin

• Chlorophyll

• Melanin

• Carotenoid

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An organelle in the cells of plants and some other organisms that captures energy from sunlight and changes it to an energy form that cells can use in making food...

• Mitochondria

• Vacuole

• Nucleus

• Chloroplast

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A threadlike structure within a cell’s nucleus that contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next...

• Ribosome

• Centromere

• Mutation

• Chromosome

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The final stage of the cell cycle, in which the cell’s cytoplasm divides, distributing the organelles into each of the two new daughter cells...

• Mitosis

• Anaphase

• Telophase

• Cytokinesis

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

• DIffusion

• Active Transport

• Exocytosis

• Endocytosis

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