A Brief History of Genetics before Mendel
Cell Structures in Prokaryotes
Cell Structures in Eukaryotes
The Cell Cycle
Sexual Reproduction
100
Two ideas proposed by _____ and _____ were the most enduring and influential in contributing to our understanding of the pattern of reproduction, embryonic development, and heredity.
Who are Hippocrates and Aristotle?
100
The fluid-filled space where the majority of cellular activities take place.
What is Cytoplasm?
100
Small membrane-enclosed compartments are "pinched off" products from the membrane of the endomembrane system.
What is a Vesicle?
100
The part of Mitosis when the daughter chromosomes reach the two poles and form two new nuclei.
What is Telophase?
100
Only specialized cells called _____ ___ are responsible for passing down the genetic material from one generation to the next.
What are Germ Cells?
200
The individual element that Hippocrates proposed that each organ in our body originated from.
What is a Gemmule?
200
A phospholipid bilayer that serves as the border that separates the cell from its external environment.
What is the Cell/Plasma Membrane?
200
A set of membranous sacs that receive proteins from the rER.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
200
The part of mitosis when the sister chromatids separate and the resultant daughter chromosomes move towards the poles.
What is Anaphase?
200
The zygote is said to be _____ which means that it has the potential to become any of the 260 cell types and eventually becomes an adult multicellular organism.
What is Totipotent?
300
An icon in biology whose groundbreaking discoveries led to his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
300
The heads of these are made of a hydrophilic phosphate and the tails of these are made of hydrophobic fatty acids.
What is a phospholipid?
300
The three major types of these elements are microtubules, intermediate filaments, and microfilaments.
What are Cytoskeleton Elements?
300
A protein complex assembled at the centromere region by each of the sister chromatids. It serves as an attachment site for the spindle fibers.
What is the Kinetochore?
300
This process features the relocation of all twenty-three chromosomes with their sister chromatids to the future site of the nucleus on each pole.
What is Telophase I?
400
The little pre-formed person inside the sperm head, drawn by Nicolaas Hartsoeker.
What is a Homunculi?
400
The place where the cell's genetic material, DNA, is stored.
What is the Nucleoid Region?
400
When the lysosome destroys the cell's own aged structures, it is called...
What is Autophagy?
400
As a cell undergoes this process, spindles pull apart original chromosomes and their copies.
What is Mitosis?
400
Movement of the homologous chromosome pair is highly coordinated and the benefits of this are enormous. This occurs in the process...
What is Meiosis I?
500
The place where the findings of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were presented in 1858.
What is the Royal Academy of Science?
500
These things can carry foreign genes and can self replicate independent of the larger chromosomal DNA.
What are Plasmids?
500
The idea that the mitochondria and chloroplasts both evolved from prokaryotes that entered and began living symbiotically within eukaryotic cells.
What is the Endosymbiosis Theory?
500
A typical cell spends less than _____ % of its time actually in mitosis.
What is ten?
500
During prophase I of meiosis, the association of a pair of homologous chromosomes or four chromatids.
What is Tetrad?
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