Key Words Flashcards
A cell able to differentiate, originating from an adult cell.
Adult stem cell
Respiration using oxygen, releasing energy and producing carbon dioxide and water.
Aerobic respiration
An alternate form of a particular gene
Allele
The process of releasing energy from glucose in the absence of oxygen to produce a small amount of energy very quickly.
Anaerobic respiration
A pair of muscles that work together to create movement, when one contracts the other one relaxes.
Antagonistic pair
A type of anti microbial that kills bacteria and fungi, but not viruses.
Antibiotic
Produced by white blood cells to inactivate disease causing micro-organisms.
Anti-body
A marker on the surface of a disease causing micro-organism.
Antigen
A chemical that kills bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Antimicrobial
A muscular blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
Artery
New offspring are reproduced that are identical to the parent.
Asexual reproduction
One of the upper chambers of the heart which receives blood coming back to the heart.
Atrium
An organism that makes its own food.
Autotroph
The thread like extension of a nerve cell.
Axon
Single cell microorganism with no nucleus.
Bacteria
