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| 4735625854 | Hydrophobic compounds | substances that do not have an affinity for water and are often non-polar | 0 | |
| 4735630678 | Organic compounds | Compounds containing carbon | 1 | |
| 4735632444 | Adenosine triphosphate | molecule storing potential "free energy" for the cell |  | 2 |
| 4735635438 | Carbohydrates | compounds that serve as fuel and building material for the cell |  | 3 |
| 4735639788 | Lipids | a group of hydrophobic molecules with much diversity in their function |  | 4 |
| 4735640837 | Proteins | Very diverse group of compounds composed of amino acid monomers |  | 5 |
| 4735640838 | DNA --> RNA ----> Protein | Central idea to biology: Protein Synthesis | 6 | |
| 4735647329 | Nucleotide | monomer of nucleic acids composed of a sugar, phosphate group and nitrogenous base |  | 7 |
| 4735649931 | Eukaryote | complex cell with most of the DNA concentrated in a nucleus |  | 8 |
| 4735653553 | Organelles | sub-cellular structures which are membrane-enclosed compartments that serve a particular function for the cell | 9 | |
| 4735655288 | Mitochondrion | double- membrane organelle that carries out cellular respiration for the cell |  | 10 |
| 4735662684 | Chloroplast | double-membrane organelle that carries out photosynthesis for the cell |  | 11 |
| 4735662685 | Osmosis | the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane in order to balance water concentration |  | 12 |
| 4735668239 | Metabolism | the sum total of an organism's chemical reactions | 13 | |
| 4735669688 | Enzyme | proteins that speed up chemical reactions |  | 14 |
| 4735673731 | Glucose | eventual product of photosynthesis |  | 15 |
| 4735676612 | Mitotic cell division | results in genetically identical daughter cells |  | 16 |
| 4735680767 | Meiotic cell division | reduces the number of chromosomes sets to half | 17 | |
| 4735682244 | Alleles | alternative versions of a gene |  | 18 |
| 4735683414 | Phenotype | an organism's appearance or observable traits |  | 19 |
| 4735687256 | Codon | a triplet of mRNA bases |  | 20 |
| 4735688134 | Plasmid | a small, circular DNA molecule carrying genes of interest |  | 21 |
| 4735689773 | Restriction enzymes | enzymes useful for cutting DNA at specific sequence sites |  | 22 |
| 4735691546 | Selective breeding | when humans choose organisms with desirable traits to breed and modify over generations |  | 23 |
| 4735695037 | Natural selection | the proposed mechanism that explains the observable patterns of evolution | 24 | |
| 7245171484 | Prokaryote | single cell organism with no nucleus or membrane bound organelles |  | 25 |
