Living Things And Cells Flashcards

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Biology

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Is the study of living things

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MRSFERG

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Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Feeding
Excretion
Reproduction
Growth

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Orginisms

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Living things

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Movement

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Animals can move plants can not

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Respiration

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Is the way living things get energy, they take oxygen and mix it with food to get energy

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Feeding

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Animals do not make their own food. They get their food by eating plants and other animals.
Plants make their own food

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Photosynthesis

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The way in which plants make food.
Using a green dye called chlorophyll. This is why plants are green

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Excreation

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The removal of waste made in the body

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Reproduction

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Being able to make new individuals of the same kind

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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 that surrounds the cell. Hold cell contents in place and controls what comes into and out of the cell

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Nucleus

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

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Cytoplasm

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The watery liquid found between the nucleus and the membrane

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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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Vaculole

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Space containing water,sugar and wastes- gives strength to the cell

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Chloroplasts

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Contain chlorophyll to help make food using sunlight (photosynthesis)

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Invertebrates

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Animals that do not have a backbone
Eg. Worm

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Vertebrates

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Animals that have a backbone
Eg. Dog