Cell Process Vocabulary

Maintenance of a constant internal state in a changing environment

• Homeostasis

• Semi-permeable

• passive transport

• osmosis

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Allow only certain particles to cross into or out of the cell

• Homeostasis

• semi-permeable

• passive transport

• osmosis

Movement of substances across a cell membrane without the use of energy by the cell

• Homeostasis

• semi-permeable

• passive transport

• active transport

Movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentrations

• homeostasis

• diffusion

• active transport

• exocytosis

The diffusion of water through a semi-permeable membrane

• homeostasis

• active transport

• endocytosis

• osmosis

Process by which a cell membrane surrounds a particle and encloses the particle to bring into the cell

• diffusion

• endocytosis

• osmosis

• exocytosis

Process in which a cell releases a particle by enclosing the particle in a vesicle that then moves to the cell surface and fuses with the cell membrane

• diffusion

• endocytosis

• osmosis

• exocytosis

a molecule produced during cellular respiration that stores energy.  The energy is used to power many chemical reactions that enable cells to survive

• glucose

• ATP

• Photosynthesis

• mitochondria

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Sugar that stores chemical energy

• ATP

• mitochondria

• Glucose

• photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

The process plants use energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar

• photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

• glucose

• ATP

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