Organelles
Storage place for excess water, food and waste
What is the vacuole
What kind of cell has a cell wall?
What is a plant cell
What disease is like a runaway truck that is going out of control?
What is cancer
What do spindle fibers form and attach to?
What is centromeres
What creates variation in the offspring of sexually reproducing organisms?
What is genetic recombination during fertilization
Place where proteins are assembled
What is the ribosome
What organelle is a series of channels where molecules can move through (like a highway)?
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum
What kind of cell division results in two identical daughter cells?
What is mitosis
During which phase of mitosis do centrioles double?
What is telophase
Which process allows sexually reproducing organisms to create gametes with half the number of chromosomes of the body cells?
What is meiosis
What is the master of homeostasis?
What is the cell membrane
What organelle is responsible for photosynthesis?
What is chloroplasts
Which phase of mitosis do sister chromatids pull apart and are pulled to opposite sides of the cell?
What is anaphase
What are the two sides (left and right) of a chromosome called?
What is Sister Chromatids
How many pairs of chromosomes are in a normal human karyotype?
What is 23
The term for movement of water across a membrane?
What is osmosis
What organelle produces ribosomes?
What is the nucleolus
During which phase of mitosis do chromatids line up along the equator (middle) of the cell?
What is metaphase
What are the set of microtubules which move to opposite ends of the cell to aid in cell division called?
What is centrioles
If both a dominant and a recessive allele for a particular trait are present in an organism, which allele is manifest in the phenotype?
What is dominant
If the concentration of a dissolved substance is the same inside of the cell as it is outside of the cell it is in a ________________________ solution.
What is isotonic Solution
When water moves inside a cell it is in a ___________________ solution?
What is a hypotonic solution
During which phase of mitosis does the nuclear membrane and nucleolus fall apart (dissolve)?
What is prophase
When does DNA replicate?
What is during S phase
A type of rodent can have white fur or brown fur. The allele for white fur is recessive to the allele for brown fur. What is the genotype of an individual with white fur?
What is homozygous recessive