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Biology

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Is the study of living things

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Organisms

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Living things

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Mrsferg

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M movement
R respiration
S sensitivity
F feeding
E excretion
R reproduction
G growth

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Movement

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Animals can move from place to place.

Plants do not move from place to place they move when they grow or when a flower opens or closes its petals

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Respiration

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Respiration is the way living things get energy. They take on oxygen and mix it with food to get energy.

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Sensitivity

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Is the ablity to react to changes in the environment. Animals will run away from danger. A plant will grow towards life

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Feeding

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Animals do not make there own food they get there food from eating other plants and animals . Plats make there own food.

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Photosynthesis

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They way in which plants make food is called photosynthesis.
To make food they need a green dye called chlorophyll this is why most plants are green

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Excretion

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Is the removal of waste made in the body from the body. Animals excreste carbon dioxide water urea and salts

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Reproduction

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Is being able to make new individuals of the same kind eg babies new plants puppy’s

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Growth

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Results from cell division

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Cell membrane

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Very thin layer surrounded the cell hold cell contents in place and controls what passes into and out of the cells

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Cytoplasm

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The very watery liquid found between the nucleus and the cell membrane

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Nucleus

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Is normally round. acts as the control centre of the cell. It has the dna.

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Mitochondria

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Supply energy to the cell

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Cell wall

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Found outside the cell membrane of a plant cell. Gives strength to the cell

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Vacuole

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Space containing water sugar and wastes gives strength to the cell

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Chloroplast

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Contains chlorophyll to help make food using sunlight (photosynthesis)

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Invertebrates

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Animals that do not have a backbone are called invertebrates eg worm

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Vertebrates

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Animals that have a back bone are called vertebrates
Eg dog
Vertebrates are normally bigger and more complex animals than invertebrates

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