NYS Regents Living Enviornment
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- movement against concentration gradient requiring the use of energy by the cell
- Active transport
- random movement of particles from an area of high concentration an area of lower concentration
- Diffusion
- haploid cell that participates in fertilization by fusing with another haploid cell
- Gamates
- nucleus of cell divides into two nuclei
- Mitosis
- a process by which populations change in response to their environment as individuals better adapted to the environment leave more offspring
- Natural selection
- early stage in the development of plants and animals: terms fora developing human during the first 8 weeks of pregnancy.
- Embryo
- process by which new species are formed
- Speciation
- produced but the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas that lower blood glucose levels by promoting the accumulation of glycogen in the liver
- Insulin
- structure that surrounds the cell membrane and provides support for the cell
- Cell Wall
- lipid bilayer with embedded proteins that enclose the cytoplasm
- Cell membrane