Science Vocab - List 1

The smallest particle of an element that has the properties of the element and can exist either alone or in combination

• Gene

• Cell

• Atom

• Nucleus

Any of various compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, most of which are formed by plants and are a major animal food

• Carbohydrate

• Lipid

• Ribosome

• Lysosome

The belief that all living organisms are made up of cells

• Cell wall

• Cellular respiration

• Cell theory

• Hypothesis

The structural layer surrounding some types of cells

• Cytoskeleton

• Cell membrane

• Golgi complex

• Cell wall

The process within the cells where chemical energy from oxygen is converted into nutrients

• Mitochondria

• Cellular respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Simulation

The structure within plant cells that turns plants green

• Vacuole

• Cytoplasm

• Lysosome

• Chlorophyll

The structure within a cell continuing chlorophyll, animal cells do not have chloroplasts

• Cytoplasm

• Cell wall

• Chloroplast

• Cell membrane

A rod-shaped body within the cell nucleus that contains all or most of the genes of an organism

• DNA

• Protein

• Gene

• Chromosome

Remaining steady and unchanged, occurring over and over again

• Constant

• Data

• Element

• Hypothesis

A network of protein filaments in the cytoplasm of many living cells, giving them shape and coherence

• Endoplasmic reticulum

• Cytoskeleton

• Genotype

• Organic compound