Everything in this flashcard set.
- BASE
- Bottom part something stands on; a safe spot in baseball
- CHLOROPHYLL
- Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms
- CHLOROPLAST
- Plastid containing ___ and other pigments
- CARBOHYDRATE
- An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals
- DIFFUSION
- The process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of
- EVOLUTION
- The sequence of events involved in the ___ development of a species or taxonomic group
- GENE
- A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain
- HORMONE
- The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has
- MICROSCOPE
- Magnifier of the image of small objects
- MITOSIS
- Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
- MEIOSIS
- Understatement for rhetorical effect
- MUTATION
- Any event that changes genetic structure
- NUCLEUS
- Center of an atom or a cell
- OSMOSIS
- Diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to
- PROTEIN
- Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle
- RECESSIVE
- An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
- DOMINANT
- The fifth note of the diatonic scale
- REPRODUCTION
- The process of generating offspring
- STAMEN
- The male reproductive organ of a flower
- PISTIL
- The female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
- TISSUE
- Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
- ZYGOTE
- The diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum
- CELL
- Tiniest unit of living things
- PLANT
- Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food