Cell Theory
All living things are composed of ______.
What are cells?
The gas that organisms breathe in and use for cellular respiration.
What is Oxygen?
The green pigment located in the chloroplast that traps energy from the sun is called_____________.
What is chlorophyll?
What is the shape of the DNA molecule?
What is a double helix?
Osmosis is specifically the movement of this substance.
What is water?
This is the basic unit of structure and function in all living organisms.
What is the cell?
Which macromolecule provides us with energy that is used for cellular respiration?
What are carbohydrates?
What are the three main things plants need to perform photosynthesis?
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
What nitrogenous bases pair to adenine and guanine?
What are thymine and cytosine?
This term describes chromosome pairs that appear similar in length and characteristics but are not identical.
What are homologous chromosomes
All cells must come from these.
What are pre-existing cells.
The overall end product(s) for cellular respiration are…
What are ATP (energy), carbon dioxide, and water?
The organelle where light is captured in a plant cell.
What is the chloroplast
What are the three components that make up a DNA nucleotide
What are a sugar (deoxyribose), phosphate group, and nitrogen base?
The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
What is homeostasis?
These organelles have their own genetic material and can replicate independently within a cell.
Which part of cellular respiration takes place in the cytoplasm?
What is glycolysis
What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
What is 6CO2+6H2O+Light Energy INTO... C6H12O6+6O2?
What enzyme helps unzip the DNA double helix in DNA replication?
What is helicase?
When you’re cold, your blood vessels contract which warms you up. When you sweat your blood vessels expand, which cools you down. This is an example of…
What is negative feedback loop?
This type of cell theory states that cells are the basic unit of life, which means they are the smallest unit that can carry on all of these.
What are the processes of life?
Which part(s) of cellular respiration is considered aerobic?
What are the Krebs Cycle and Electron Transport Chain?
Which color of light do most plants reflect rather than absorb?
What is green?
The main enzyme involved in adding new nucleotides to the growing DNA strand.
What is DNA Polymerase?
This type of cell division reduces the chromosome number from diploid to haploid.
What is meiosis?