Organelles
This organelle stores genetic material.
What is the nucleus?
A chain with multiple of the same type of monomer.
What is a polymer?
Parts of a phospholipid.
What are the hydrophilic head and the hydrophobic tail?
The instrument used to view microorganisms.
What is a microscope?
A molecule has both positive and negative poles.
What is polarity?
This organelle is responsible for the generation of ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
Components of a fatty acid chain.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
(Hydrocarbon tail with a carboxyl head)
The process that a carbon dioxide molecule would use to pass through the membrane.
What is simple diffusion?
The three tenets of Cell Theory.
What are:
"1. All cells come from existing cells.
2. A Cell is the basic unit of all living things.
3. All organisms are composed of 1 or more cells."?
An atom that has an electric charge due to the gain or loss of an electron.
What is an ion?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This organelle produces digestive enzymes.
What is the lysosome?
Glucose is an example of...
What is a 6-carbon monosaccharide?
This type of diffusion uses protein channels.
What is facilitated diffusion?
The three domains of life.
What are bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes?
A chemical bond where the electron is shared.
What is a covalent bond?
This organelle is responsible for the packaging and modification of proteins.
The bond that links amino acid monomers together.
What is a peptide bond?
The direction in which osmosis moves water across a membrane.
What is the movement of water from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration?
The term for a molecule that possesses both polar and non-polar regions.
What is amphipathic?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
A common biochemical reaction in which water is a reactant.
What is hydrolysis?
What is the peroxisome?
The functional groups that make up an amino acid.
What are an amino group, a carboxyl group, and an R group?
A cell has less solute than the surrounding aqueous environment.
What is hypertonicity?
This eukaryote cannot be categorized as a plant, animal, or fungus.
What is a protist?
The most electronegative atom found in organic compounds.
What is oxygen?