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Key Vocabulary

Angiosperms – Plants with flowers

Asexual Reproduction – Reproduction requiring only one parent

Autotrophs – Organisms that get energy from photosynthesis

Bacilli – Bacteria shaped like rods

Binary Fission – Asexual reproduction in which the parent organism splits
into two identical offspring

Budding – Process of reproduction where a small appendage, or “bud” grows
on the parent organism, eventually breaking off to form its own organism

Cell – The smallest structure still considered to be living

Cell Wall – Structure on the outside of a cell that protects it from harmful
substances trying to enter

Chemotrophs – Bacteria that get energy by breaking down chemical
compounds

Chitin – Material that makes up shells of beetles and lobsters, and makes up
the cell walls of fungi

Chromosome – Area of the cell in which the genetic information is found

Cilia – Small tail-like structures that aid in motion

Classification – Putting things into groups

Cocci – Bacteria shaped like spheres

Commensalism – Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits
while the other is unaffected

Corolla – Collective term for all the petals of a flower

Cross-Pollination – Method of reproduction in angiosperms where the pollen
from a plant goes into the stigma of a different plant

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