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- 5. A tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within the cell.
- 7. An organism or cell that has a defined nucleus (a compartment containing the genetic material) and other membrane-bound structures called organelles
- 11. Getting its food from other plants or animals, or relating to such living things:
- 12. The basic unit of structure and function in living things.
- 13. In cells, a large oval organelle that contains the cell’s genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many of the cell’s activities.
- 14. A rigid supporting layer that surrounds the cells of plants and some other organisms.
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- 1. Consisting of many cells.
- 2. he process by which plants and other autotrophs capture and use light energy to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
- 3. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
- 4. A simple, single-celled organism lacking a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
- 6. Deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring.
- 8. The thick fluid region of a cell located inside the cell membrane (in prokaryotes) or between the cell membrane and nucleus (in eukaryotes).
- 9. Made of a single cell.
- 10. Membrane A thin, flexible barrier that surrounds a cell and controls which substances pass into and out of a cell.