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| Building block of living things |
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| When two solutions are of equal concentration |
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| Hypertonic/concentrated solution |
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| When a solution contains a large number of solute particles per set volume of solvent |
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| The cell organelle where the process of respiration |
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| A type of passive transport where water molecules move from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration through a cell membrane |
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| Hypotonic/dilute solution |
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| When a solution contains fewer number of solute particles per set volume of solvent |
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| The genetic material of the cell, found in the nucleus |
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| Transport across the cell membrane that requires energy (ATP) |
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| The organelle that holds the genetic material |
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| The process carried out by plant cells, which converts light energy from the sun into glucose the plant can use |
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| The cell organelle where the process of photosynthesis takes place in plants |
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| The green pigment found in chloroplasts |
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| The cells at the top of a leaf that contain many chloroplasts |
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| The openings at the bottom of the leaf that let in CO2, and let out O2 |
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| Rough endoplasmic reticulum |
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| The cell organelle responsible for the transport of proteins, rough because it contains proteins |
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| The cell organelle responsible for the manufacture of proteins |
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| The random movement of substances resulting in a movement from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration |
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| The structure only found in plant cells that gives the cell its shape |
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| The process that occurs in the mitochondria and results in the production of ATP |
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| The watery solution inside the cell in which the organelles are found |
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| The boundary between the cell and its environment |
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| Movement of substances, does not need energy |
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| Movement of substances by diffusion with 'helper' proteins that provide channels for the process |
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| The process of DNA making an exact copy of itself |
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| The term used to explain how each new DNA molecule contains one old and one new strand once replicated |
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| Proteins that speed up the rate of biological reactions |
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| The part of the enzyme that binds with the substances it works with |
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| Folded membranes inside mitochondria. Have a large surface area, which increases the rate of respiration. |
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| Stacked membranes inside chloroplast. Have a large surface area, which increases the rate of photosynthesis. |
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