Chapter 3 Science Vocabulary

The process by which plants and other autotrophs capture and use light energy to make food from carbon dioxide and water.

An organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things

An organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food

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

The process in which oxygen and glucose undergo a complex series of chemical reactions inside cells, releasing energy

The process by which cells release energy by breaking down good molecules without using oxygen

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

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

The first stage of the cell cycle that takes place before cell division occurs, during which a cell grows and makes a copy of its DNA.

The second stage of the cell cycle during which the cell’s nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell.