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Producer |
an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings |
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Consumer |
an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter |
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Decomposer |
an organism that gets energy by breaking down teh reamains of dead orgnaism or absorbing the nutrients |
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Protein |
a molecule that is made up of amino acids and that is needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body |
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Carbohydrate |
a class of energy-giving nutrients that inclueds sugars, starches, and fiber, Carbohydrates contain: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
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Simple Carbohydrates |
made up of one sugar molecule or a few sugar molecules linked together. (Table sugar and fruits are examples) |
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Complex Carbohydrates |
made of hundreds of sugar molecules linked together. when an organism has more sugar than it needs, the extra sugar is stored as complex carbohydrates. (example is potates store the sugar as starch which is a complex carbohydrae) |
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Lipid |
a type of biochemical that does not dissolve in water fats and steroids are lipds |
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Phospholipid |
a lipid that contains phosphorus and that is a structural component in cell membranes (it makes up the cell membrate with the heads pointing to the water and the tail pointing inside) remember picture in book on page 46) |
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ATP (adenosine triphosphate) |
a molecule that acts as the main energy source for processes |
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Nucleic Acid |
a molecule made up of smaller molecules call nucleotides |
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Molecules in living things are usually composed of 6 elements |
1. carbon 2. hydrogen 3. nitrogen 4. oxygen 5. phosphorus 6. sulfur |
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The 6 elements in living things form: |
protiens, carbohydrates, lipids, ATP, and Nucleiec Acids |
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Hemoglobin |
protein that binds to oxygen to deliver and release oxygen throughout the body (hemoglobin takes the oxygen to where it needs to go) |
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Hydrophilic |
Water loving |
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Hydrophobic |
water hating |
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Lipid fact |
Fats and oils are lipids that store energy |
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A + P Adenosine Triphosphate |
the major energy-carrying molecules in the cell |
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Nucleic Acid Fact |
Nucleic Acid may have thousands of nucleotides |
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DNA Molecule Fact |
A DNA molecule is like a recipe book titled "How to Make Protiens" |
