Cell Biology
Known as the "powerhouse of the cell"
What is the mitochondira?
The molecule that carries genetic instructions in all living things
What is DNA?
The body's largest organ by surface area
What is skin?
The green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight.
What are autotrophs (or producers)?
What is cytoplasm?
Alternates forms or variation of a gene
This muscular organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
The process by which water evaporates from plant leaves.
What is transpiration
The specific role or position a species has in its environment.
What is a niche?
Plant cells have this rigid outer layer that animal cells lack
What is the cell wall?
The term that describes an organism's genetic makeup, as opposed to its physical traits.
What is a genotype?
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange takes place.
What are alveoli?
Plant tissue responsible for transporting water upward from the roots.
What is xylem?
The gradual process by which an ecosystem changes and develops after a disturbance.
What is ecological succession?
This membrane network is involved in lipid synthesis and lacks ribosomes
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
The specific region of a chromosome where sister chromatids are held together
What is a centromere?
This specific region of the brain is responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
The plant hormone primarily responsible for cell elongation and phototropism.
What is auxin?
The total dry mass of living matter in a given area or volume.
What is biomass?
This conserved eukaryotic complex ubiquitinates specific cell-cycle proteins like cyclins, triggering their degradation via the proteasome during mitosis.
What is the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/ Cyclosome (APC/C)
The club sponsor of biology club
Who is Mr.Myers?
This specific type of high-threshold, slowly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptor ending in the stratum basale is responsible for detecting fine touch and form.
What is a Merkel cell (or Merkel disk / Type I cutaneous mechanoreceptor)?
This molecular pathway involves the enzymatic methylation of histones by Polycomb Repressive Complexes, leading to epigenetic silencing of floral meristem identity genes like LEAFY.
What is chromatin remodeling / epigenetic silencing (or PRC2 / histone methylation)?
This quantitative framework uses matrix algebra to project population growth, utilizing age- or stage-specific survival and fertility rates in a transition matrix.
What is matrix population modeling (or a Leslie/Lefkovitch matrix)?