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Cells: Structures and Processes

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Students explore the basic unit of life, the cell in this nine lessons unit. The cell structure of animal and plant cell functions and how they affect our world are probed in this unit.

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cells, the cell wall, chloroplasts, chromosomes, cytoplasm, genes, organelles, organisms, protists, ribosomes, the nucleus, vacuole

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cell, cell wall, chloroplasts, chromosomes, cytoplasm, endoplasmic, genes, mitochondra, nuclear membrane, nucleus, organelles, organism, protist, protoeoan, ribosome, vacuole, science
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Grade
5th
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Science
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Year
2005
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