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Cells and organisms
what do cells to for us and others? how does it work?
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Science
6th Grade
03/01/2007

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What is the smallest unit that does all activities needed for life?
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A Cell.
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What are the basic units that make up living things?
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cells
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What is made of cells and carries out all activities for life.
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An organism.
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What is made of cells and carries out all activities for life.
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An organism.
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What are most organisms made up of?
Definition
many cells.
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What are humans and elephants made up of?
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many cells that work together.
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What is one of the many activities that cells do?
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breaking down food for energy.
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What does each cell have that helps it do its many activities?
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Special parts.
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All the instructions a cell needs to live are carried by
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DNA
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An organisms made up of a cell with one circular DNA molocule is a ...
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Prokaryote.
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An organism made up of a cell with a nucleus that stores DNA is a...
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Eurkaryote
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What are all Prokaryotes?
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single-celled organisms.
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What are most single-celled eukaryotes?
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Protists.
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Which of these is a true statement about protists
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Some protists live on land.
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performs photosythesis hace a hard shell moves using flagella.
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Dinoflagellets
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perform photosynthesis can also surround food move using flagella.
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Euglenoids.
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Surround food and digest it move using pseudopodiam have no shell.
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Protozoans
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Perform photoythesis, cannot move on their own have a glassy shell.
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Diatoms.
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How do some multi-cellular organisms such as plants et their food
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by photosynthesis.
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How do some multi-cellular organisms such as humans get nutrition.
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by eating other organisms.
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What is one advantage of being multicellular organisms?
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you or the organism may have specialized cells.
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Where do fungi get nutrients?
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Fungi absobs them from their envirorment.
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What is true of animals?
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Almost all can move...
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What must animals eat to get the nutrition they need?
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other organisms or materials.
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What kind of organisms are plants?
Definition
multicellular.
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Where do most plants get their nutrition they need?
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from phoosynthesis.
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What are some plants called that do not rely completely on photosynthesis.
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Air plants.
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How many cells are in a human body?
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trillions
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How many kinds of cells are in the human body?
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more than 200
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What are some of the largest cells in the human body?
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nere cells.
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