Cell Anatomy
The intracellular fluid packed with the organelles of a cell
What is cytoplasm?
The act of cells 'drinking'
Exocytosis is an example of ______ transport
What is active?
In a cell, proteins are synthesized here
What are ribosomes?
Mitosis is the division of this
What is a nucleus?
The cell membrane is composed mostly of this
What are phospholipids and proteins?
If you walk into your house and smell dinner, you are experiencing this
What is diffusion?
A cell with 'eat' small amounts of solutes and particles
What is phagocytosis?
In a cell, ATP is produced by this
What is a mitochondrion?
Cytokinesis is defined as this
What is the division of the cytoplasm?
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
Diffusion requires this
What is a concentration gradient?
The type of transport driven by energy stored in gradients
What is secondary active transport?
These structures bud off the Golgi apparatus
What are lysosomes?
DNA is replicated during this stage of interphase
What is the S phase?
The interior of the cell membrane can best be described as this
What is hydrophobic?
A cell that is placed in a hypertonic solution will do this
What is crenate?
The reason why active transport different from facilitated diffusion
What is moving against the concentration gradient?
The cytoskeletal element attaches to desmosomes to resist pulling forces exerted on the cell
What are intermediate filaments?
A cell has 8 chromosomes before mitosis, each daughter cell will have these many chromosomes
What is 8?
Cell junctions that are important in cell communication
What are gap junctions?
These solutions contain a lower concentration of nonpenetrating particles
What is hypotonic?
The Sodium-Potassium Pump is an example of an ______ transport
What is active?
These organelles are fatal to the cell if they burst
What are lysosomes?
Semiconservative replication refers to this
What is one old and one new nucleotide strand in each new DNA molecule ?