Vocabulary
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- Heterotroph
- Organism that cant make its own food
- Pigment
- Colored chemical compounds that absorb light
- Cancer
- Disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrolably
- Respiration
- When cells obtain enegry from glucose
- autotroph
- Organism that makes it own food
- Mitosis
- Stage during which the cells nucleus divides into two new nuclei
- Replication
- Cells make a copy of DNA
- Tumor
- An abormale cells that develops when cancerous cells divide
- Chromosomes
- A threadlike chromatianin the nucleus condenses to form double rod structures
- Photosynthesis
- Cell caputres sunlight and makes food
- Cytokinesis
- The final stage of the cell cycle
- Cell Cycle
- The regular sequence of growth and divison that cells undergo
- Interphase
- The first stage of cell cycle
- Mutation
- A change in the DNA
- Chemotherapy
- The use of drugs to treat a diease
- Chlorophyll
- The main photosynthetic pigment is chloroplasts
- Fermantation
- Enegry process that does not need oxygen
- Stomata
- Small openings on the undersides of the leaves