Scince Test 2
Terms
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- mitosis
- stage when cell splits
- cytokinesis
- stage when cell becomes two new cells
- respiration
- glucose + oxygen = water, energy, and carbon dioxide
- photosynthesis
- carbon dioxide + water (yields/sunlight) glucose & oxygen
- cancer
- when cells grow and divide uncontrollably
- fermentation
- energy is released without using oxygen
- chemotherapy
- use of drugs to kill cancer cells
- tumor
- mass of abnormal cells
- radiation therapy
- uses radiation to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells
- DNA
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-deoxyribonucleic acid
-double helix
-side chains=sugar&phosphate
-four base pairs, A/T & G/C (Avoid Touching Gary's Cat) - RNA
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-ribonucleic acid
-single helix
-creates proteins
-A/U & G/C (Always Use Good Celery) - mutation
- a change in the DNA
- autotroph
- an organism that makes its own food
- heterotroph
- an organism that can not make its own food
- centromere
- the structure that holds together the chromatids
- chromatid
- an identical rod or strand of a chromosome
- base pairs
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thymine, guanine, cytosine, adenine
A/T & G/C (Avoid Touching Gary's Cat)