Cell Structure
This organelle controls the activities of the cell and contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This macromoleclue stores genetic information in cells.
What are nucleic acids?
This process is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This process moves molecules from an area of high concentration to a low concentration.
What is diffusion?
This ratio limits how large a cell can become.
What is the surface area-to-volume ratio?
This organelle produces most of a cell's ATP energy.
What is the mitochondria?
This macromolecule is mainly used for long term energy storage.
What are lipids?
This property of water allows insects to walk on its surface.
What is surface tension?
This type of transport requires energy from ATP.
What is active transport?
This happens to an enzyme when extreme heat changes its shape.
What is a denaturation?
This organelle contains chlorophyll and carries out photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
This is the main function of carbohydrates in living things.
What is providing quick energy?
This property allows water to resist temperature changes.
What is high specific heat?
This term describes maintaining stable internal conditions in an organism.
What is homeostasis?
These are the reactants needed for photosynthesis.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
This cell structure controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
These are proteins that speed up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
This is the reason water is considered a polar molecule.
What is unequal sharing of elections?
This type of solution causes a cell to shrink because water leaves the cell.
What is a hypertonic solution?
This bond forms when atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
This type of cell does not contain a nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
This element is the basis of all organic molecules.
What is carbon?
Hydrogen bonds are responsible for this property of water molecules sticking together.
What is cohesion?
This is the difference between passive and active transport.
What is passive transport does not require energy, where as active transport does?
This molecule makes up most of the cell membrane.
What is a phospholipid?