Parts of a Cell
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
The breaking down of food molecules into usable energy
What all living things use
What is energy?
What organic compounds have that inorganic compounds do not have
What is carbon?
What binomial nomenclature is used for
What is naming organisms?
Transport Network that moves protein
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
Where cellular respiration happens in most cells
What is the mitochondria?
The ability to maintain a stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
A pure substance consisting of tow or more elements that are chemically combined in a fixed proportion
What is a compound?
The three domains that taxonomists organized organisms into
What is bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?
Produce Protein and float throughout the cell
What are ribosomes?
The movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration
What is diffusion?
Three things all living things need
What is water, food, energy, gases, and/or space?
Organic compounds made of one or more sugar molecules
What are carbohydrates?
The four kingdoms of the Eukarya domain
What are protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia?
Organelles that store water, food, and other materials
What are vacuoles?
What form most energy is released in?
The molecule within a cell that carries the genetic information of an organism
What is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
What are lipids?
What is:
prokaryotes-lacks a distinct nucleus
eukaryote-have a visible nucleus
Two things that a plant cell has that an animal cell does not have
A molecule that carries small packets of energy for a cell's activities
What is adenosine triphosphate (ATP)?
The number of bases of DNA?
What is four? Adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine
What protein does and is made of
What is helping build and repair tissues/cells, providing some energy, and carrying some important materials? What is amino acids?
The eight major categories that taxonomists use
What are: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?