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Biology for Secondary Schools



              Ecology                                 Locomotion
                   branch of Biology that deals with        type of movement  whereby the
                   the  study of the  relationship        whole body moves
                   between living things and their    Metabolism
                   environment                              chemical  processes that take
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              Embryo                                       place inside living cells

                  an organism in the very early stages   Mesophyll
                 of development from a zygote              The palisade layer and the spongy
              Eukaryotic cells                            layer of the leaf

                   cells whose nuclei  are  bound by   Microbe
                   nuclear membranes                        organisms that are too small to be
              Eukaryotic organism                         seen by naked eyes
                    an organism that has a clearly    Microscope
                   defined  nucleus  surrounded  by  a     an instrument  that  is used in
                   nuclear membrane. It also possesses    scientific  studies  to  enlarge
                   membrane bound organelles, such        very small  things, such as
                   as  mitochondria,  endoplasmic         microorganisms so that they can
                   reticulum, and lysosomes               be easily seen and examined
              Fronds                                  Monocotyledon plant

                    leaves  of a fern plant.  They are       plant that produces seeds with one
                   made up of leaflets called pinnae      cotyledon.  An example  of such
              Homologous structures                       plants is a maize plant

                    structures with same origin,  but   Moss
                   may perform the same or different        small  non-vascular  plant  with
                   functions                              leaf-like  structure anchored by
              Hyphae                                      root-like structures called rhizoids
                   filaments or thread-like structures   Multicellular organisms
              making up the fungi                         many celled organisms

              Kingdom                                 Mycelium
                    first taxonomic rank of classification      dense network of hyphae in fungi
              Laboratory                              Nutrition

                  a  room  specialised  to conduct        the  process by  which  living
                   scientific experiments                 things  take  in  food for  growth,
                                                          metabolism, and body repair



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