| A | B |
|---|
| Organelle | Small "organ" of the cell: Ex. mitochondria, nucleus, ribosome |
| Organic Compound | Any chemical compound containing C and H |
| Osmosis | Movement of WATER from where there's a lot to a little |
| Ovary | Female reproductive organ |
| Oviduct | Fallopian tubes |
| Ovulation | Release of the egg during the menstural cycle |
| Pancreas | Endocrine gland that secretes insulin |
| Parasitism | One organism gains while the other organism is harmed |
| Passive transport | Material is able to move without the use of ATP |
| pH | Relative acidity or basicity of a solution |
| Phloem | Transports food and water in plants |
| Photosynthesis | Carbon dioxide + water makes oxygen and Glucose |
| Pioneer species | The first organisms to move into an environment |
| Placenta | Structure found in mammals that allows exchange of food and wastes between mom and fetus |
| Pollen | Male sex cell in plants |
| Pollination | Fertilization in plants |
| Population | All the members of one species living in an area |
| Producer | Makes food : Eaten by consumer |
| Progesterone | Female hormone causes uterus to stay thick |
| Protein | Made of amino acids |
| Regeneration | Type of asexual reproduction |
| Regulation | Life process that allows organisms to respond to changes in environment around them |
| Replication | Copying of chromosomes during mitosis or meiosis |
| Respiration | Glucose + oxygen makes ATP , Carbon dioxide and Water |
| Ribosome | Where mRNA travels to to put together proteins |
| Saprophyte | Breaks down dead or decaying matter: fungus or bacteria |
| Male chromosome arrangement | XY |
| Female chromosome arrangement | XX |
| Sexual Reproduction | Allows for variation |
| Species | Most specific grouping: Members can reproduce |
| Starch | Complex carbohydrate |
| Stimulus | A change in the environment that causes a response |
| Stomate | Whole found in leaf that regulates amount of water |
| Succession | How one ecologcial environment replaces another until a climax community is estabished |
| Survival of fittest | Darwin theory that says those best adapted survive and reproduce |
| Synthesis | Put atoms together |
| Taiga | Coniferous forest: cold: Bears and moose: Mountains and northern canada |
| Technological Oversight | Failure to adequately assess the environmental impact of technolgy |
| Temperate Deciduous Forest | Environment in our area |
| Template | Pattern provided by DNA to make other DNA or protein molecules |
| Terrestrial biome | On land |
| Testosterone | Male hormone |
| Thymine | Bonds with adenine in DNA: Not found in RNA |
| Use and disuse | False theory of evolution |
| Uterus | Where fetus develops in mom |
| Vaccine | A dead or weakened virus or bacteria used to stimulate the bodies immune system |
| Variation | Difference |
| Xylem | Transport tube in plants that takes water up from roots |
| Zygote | An egg that has been fertilized by a sperm |
