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Biology for Secondary Schools

Glossary

Amoeba Conjugation
aquatic or parasitic unicellular sexual reproduction where genetic
organism that uses pseudopodia material is exchanged between
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for locomotion and engulfing food two organisms
Aflatoxin Cell sap

poisonous substances produced by liquid inside the large central
fungi, which are mostly found in vacuole of a plant cell
maize and groundnuts Chlorophyll
Analogous structure green pigment found in the leaves
structures with different origins but of green plants, and stems of some
perform the same function plants

Analogy Chloroplast
similarity of use cell organelle with chlorophyll
Aquarium where photosynthesis occurs

place or container for keeping live Class
marine or freshwater organisms third taxonomic rank of classification
Basidia Cones

microscopic club-shaped structure light-sensitive cells in the retina
in basidiomycetes, such as that are important for colour vision
mushrooms in which sexual Conifers
spores are produced cone bearing plants whose seeds
Binomial nomenclature are not enclosed in ovaries but are
scientific system of naming arranged spirally in cones
organisms whereby every name is Cotyledon
made up of two parts seed leaves found within a plant
Botany embryo

study of plants Dioecious plant
Capsid Organism with separate sex

protein shell that encloses genetic Division
material in a virus second taxonomic rank of
Cell classification in plants
basic unit of life

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