EOC Vocab Review Set 1

Boost your biology score! Review key EOC vocabulary with definitions and matching exercises.

Vocab Matching Match each vocab word with the correct definition anatomical relating to body structure angiosperm flowering plants, fruit often develops around seeds biochemical relating to the chemicals of life, proteins, carbs, lipids, nucleic acids consumer animal that eats other organisms gametes sex cell such as egg or sperm gymnosperm cone bearing plants, pines are an example, seeds have no cover ferns has vascular system, but no seeds hormones chemical messenger, controls development in plants and animals niche the role that an organism fills, where it lives, what it eats, etc producer organisms that make their own food active transport transport across the membrane from low to high, needs ATP diffusion movement of particles from high to low chemosynthesis synthesis of sugars from inorganic material, no light needed fatty acids building blocks of lipids iodine chemical test for starch mitosis cell division that creates identical daughter cells, for growth and repair meiosis cell division that cuts the chromosome number in half, making gametes translation the assembly of amino acids into a growing protein chain, happens at the ribosome transgenic combining of DNA from different organisms, or different parents transcription copying a segment of DNA that can travel to the ribosome for protein synthesis Fill in the blanks Energy storage molecule of plants, starch. Polymers of amino acids, used for transport, enzymes, proteins. Chemical test for proteins, biruets.Tissue of the plant that transports water or nutrients, vascular.Pure water, distilled.Organelle, site of cellular respiration, mitochondria.Ball of cells forms from several rounds of mitosis after an egg is fertilized, embryo.Fertilized egg, zygote.Tough outer layer of plant cells, made of cellulose, cell wall.Organelle, stores DNA, where transcription happens, nucleus.