Cell
This term describes the movement of water through a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This substance plays a crucial role in maintaining fluidity and stability of cell membranes.
What is cholesterol?
T/F: Genome size is correlated with organismal complexity.
What is False?
The complete set of genetic information in an organism is called this.
What is the genome?
In cell division, this process results in two genetically identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
These cells can be used in medicine because of their ability to differentiate.
What are stem cells?
This structure is found in prokaryotic cells and is essential for their motility.
What is the flagellum?
What is a nucleoid?
This leads to cancer (uncontrolled cell growth).
What is a mutation?
In a microscope slide of an onion root tip, this index measures the proportion of cells in mitosis.
What is the mitotic index?
This protein is essential for the condensation (bonding together) of DNA.
What are histones?
In a phospholipid bilayer, this part is hydrophobic.
What are the fatty acid tails?
The theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
The chromosomes of bacterial cells, animal cells, and fungi share the same...
What is the presence of the same bases (ATCG)?
This is what occurs during the first division of meiosis that ensures genetic diversity.
What is crossing over?
In an osmosis experiment, this type of solution would lead to an increase in cell mass.
What is a hypotonic solution?
This would happen to a freshwater unicellular organism if placed in a solution slightly more concentrated than its cytoplasm.
What is the cell would become smaller?
This structure of a prokaryotic cell is essential for its shape and protection.
What is the cell wall?
What is their base sequence?
This process describes the separation of (sister) chromatids during meiosis.
What is the second division of meiosis (Meiosis II/Anaphase II)?
These cells have the potential to differentiate into various cell types.
What are pluripotent stem cells?
This feature of the phospholipid bilayer is essential for its function in the cell membrane.
What is amphipathic nature?
The type of ribosome that prokaryotic cells have.
What is 70S ribosomes?
This combination of parent genotypes that could result in children with blood groups A, B, AB and O.
What are IA/i x IB/i?
This term describes the event that halves the chromosome number during meiosis.
What is the first division of meiosis (Meiosis I/Anaphase I)?