abiotic - related to anything that is NOT living, adaptation - adjusting to the surrounding environmental conditions, animal - a living thing made of cells that cannot make its own food, bacteria - microscopic single-celled organisms, biology - the study of living things, biosphere - all living things on earth are part of this, biotic - related to anything that IS living, cell - the basic unit of life, the smallest living thing that can exist, cell membrane - outer layer of a cell that allows some things to pass through and holds things inside the cell, chloroplast - part of a plant cell that contains chlorophyll, consumer - an organism that cannot create its own food, cytoplasm - the fluid inside a cell that holds the organelles, eukaryotic - relating to an organism that contains many cells, fungus - a multicellular organism that is not a plant (mold, mildew, mushrooms, yeast), innate - something present from birth (instinct), mitochondria - an organelle inside a cell that produces energy for the cell (the powerhouse), nucleus - the innermost part of a cell that contains the DNA (the brains), organ - a collection of cells and tissues that perform a specific function in an organism, organism - any living thing that is made of one or more cells that can exist on its own, photosynthesis - the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food, plant/producer - an organism that can make its own food (can be consumed by other organisms), ecosystem - the interaction between living and nonliving things, prokaryotic - relating to an organism that contains just one cell, protist - organisms that are unicellular or multicellular, may or may not have a nucleus, and don't fit in to other kingdoms of living things, ribosome - a cell organelle that puts together proteins for cell energy and function, soil - dirt, earth, land, broken down rock, tissue - many of the same kinds of cells bound together to perform a function in an organism, vacuole - a cell organelle that helps with waste (animal cells) and water balance (plant cells),

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