Cellular Respiration
This stage of cellular respiration takes place in the cytoplasm and breaks down glucose into pyruvate.
What is glycolosis?
Plants mainly perform photosynthesis in this organelle.
What is the chloroplast?
This scientist is considered the father of genetics.
What is Gregor Mendel?
This structure controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This process moves water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it produces ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
This pigment absorbs light energy and gives plants their green color.
What is chlorophyll?
Different forms of the same gene are called these.
What are alleles?
Ribosomes are responsible for this cellular function.
What is protein synthesis?
The enzyme that unwinds DNA during replication is called this.
What is helicase?
This molecule is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.
What is oxygen?
This stage of photosynthesis uses ATP and CO₂ to make sugars.
What is the Calvin cycle?
An organism with two different alleles for a trait is described by this term.
What is heterozygous?
This organelle modifies and packages proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This organelle contains its own DNA and likely evolved through endosymbiosis.
What is the mitochondrion?
Most ATP during cellular respiration is produced during this process.
What is the electron transport chain (oxidative phosphorylation)?
Water is split during these reactions, releasing oxygen.
What are the light-dependent reactions?
This square-shaped tool predicts inheritance patterns.
What is a Punnett square?
Plant cells have this rigid structure outside the membrane.
What is the cell wall?
This phase of mitosis aligns chromosomes along the cell’s equator.
What is metaphase?
This cycle occurs in the mitochondrial matrix and produces NADH and FADH₂.
What is the Krebs cycle (citric acid cycle)?
This organelle structure contains chlorophyll and stacks into grana.
What are thylakoids?
This process creates gametes with half the original chromosome number.
What is meiosis?
This organelle contains digestive enzymes used to break down waste.
What is the lysosome?
This enzyme builds complementary DNA strands during replication.
What is DNA polymerase?