Living things And Cells Flashcards

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Biology

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Is the study of living things

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Organism

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Another word for living things

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Mrsferg

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Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Feeding, Excretion, Reproduction, 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 and closes its petals.

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Respiration

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The way living things get energy. They take in oxygen and mix it with food to get energy.

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Sensitively

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The ability to react to changes in the environment.
Animals will run away from danger and plants will grow towards light.

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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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Cell Membrane

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Very thin layer that surrounds to cell.
Holds cell controls what passes into and out of the cell

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Cytoplasm

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The watery liquid found between the nucleus and the cell membrane

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Nucleus

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

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Contains chlorophyll to help make food using sunlight(photosynthesis)

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Vertebrate

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Animals that have a back bone

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Invertebrate

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Animals that do not have a back bone