Tiffany Buchanan 9-23-10
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- Boiling point
- The temperature when gas bubbles and rises to the surface
- Bronchi
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Air passage that lead from the windpipe to the lungs
- Buoyancy
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The ability to float
- Cambrian Boundry
- The geoligic point at which life increased about 550million years ago
- Cancer
- A disease caused by abnormal cell growth
- Capsid
- protein shell that surrounds a virus
- Carcinogen
- A chemical that causes cancer
- Carrier
- Organism that transmits a disease yet shows no symptoms
- Catasrophic event
- event that changes the ability for organisms to survive on a large scale
- cell
- basic unit structureand function of all organisms.
- Cell cycle
- a continuous process in which cells grow
- Cell division
- The process through which a cell divides to from cells that are identical
- Cell membrane
- The structure that surrounds the cell
- Cell theory
- A statement that all living things are composed of cells
- Cell wall
- rigid structure that surrounds the cell membrane of bacterial cells
- Cellular respiration
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the process cells use to obtain energy from food
- Chemical
- substance used in or formed by a chemical process
- Chemical bonds
- An action that changes the idenity of a substance
- Chemical formula
- method of using chemical symbols to identify the num. of atoms of each molecule
- Chemical property
- charactistic that describes how matter will change under certain conditions
- Chemical reaction
- process by which new substances are formed
- Chemical weathering
- a proces that changes the chemical composition of rock
- Chemistry
- The study of composition of substances and changes they undergo
- Chlorophyll
- Green pigment that captures the energy of the sun to the process of photosynthesis
- Chloroplast
- cell organelle that stores chlorophyll and serves as the site for photosynthesis