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Feature of living thing enabling it to live in a specific habitat
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Adaptation
Feature of living thing enabling it to live in a specific habitat
Structural adaptation
Body feature that helps an organism survive in a habitat
Functional adaptation
Process in a living thing enabling it to survive in a habitat
Behavioural adaptations
Behaviour of a living thing exhibits to help it survi
Osmosis
process in which water molecules move across a semi- permeable membrane from a high concentration to a lower concentration
Semi-permeablemembrane
Surface with tiny whole that allows only certain particles to pass through
Dialysis tubing
A semipermeable membrane
Transpiration
Process by which plants lose water through their leaves
Stomata
Tiny holes found in the epidermis of leaves; allow gase and water vapour out
Respiration
Chemical process carried out in the cells of living things; releases energy from the breakdown of glucose
Starch test
Adding iodine to a leaf boiled in meths then washed in water; turns blue-black if starch is present ( ie photosynthesis has occurred)
Starch
long chained carbohydrate produced by plants; made of thousands of glucose molecules joined together
Variegated
having more than one colour
Photosynthesis
Process where plants make their own food from water and carbon dioxide; solar energy is changed into chemical energy
Root hairs
Tiny hairs found on plant's roots
Tap root
Main plant root that grows down wards
Lateral roots
Plant root that grows out side ways
Xylem Vessels
tube that carries water in a plant
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