Cell Structure & Function
What organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell”?
What is the mitochondria
DNA stands for this.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Evolution is change in this over time.
What is a population?
Photosynthesis occurs in this organelle.
What is the chloroplast?
Organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell
What is the cell membrane?
The different forms of a gene are called these.
What are alleles?
The mechanism proposed by Darwin for evolution.
What is natural selection?
The main pigment used in photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The role an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Ribosomes are responsible for this process.
What is protein synthesis?
A heterozygous genotype contains these types of alleles.
What are dominant and recessive alleles?
Structures with similar functions but different evolutionary origins are called these.
What are analogous structures?
The final electron acceptor in cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
The movement of water through living organisms and the environment.
What is the water cycle?
This organelle modifies, packages, and ships proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This scientist is known as the father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Evolution of different species from a common ancestor.
What is divergent evolution?
The stage of photosynthesis that produces ATP and NADPH.
What are the light-dependent reactions?
The maximum population size an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This organelle contains enzymes that break down waste materials.
What is the lysosome?
The process by which DNA is copied.
What is DNA replication?
Random changes in allele frequencies due to chance.
What is genetic drift?
The cycle that fixes carbon dioxide into sugars.
What is the Calvin Cycle?
Interactions between organisms of different species that benefit both.
What is mutualism?