Unit 1
The simplest element used in all life forms
What is Carbon?
The storage organelle for the cell
What is a vacuole?
The molecule that acts as a source of energy to perform work
What is ATP?
The signal sent through cells for comunnication
What is a Ligand?
The property of water that allows it to stick to other water molecules
What is Cohesion?
Another phrase for nonpolar
What is hydrophobic?
A process where cells allow different metabolic processes to occur at the same time.
What is Compartmentalization?
The Molecule that actively binds to an enzyme
What is a substrate?
The communication of cells through touch
What is Direct Contact?
The location of the Electron Transport Chain in cellular respiration
What is the membrane?
A type of fatty acid that contains a double carbon bond, or kink, in the molecular structure
What is an unsaturated fatty acid?
Materials on the membrane that allows molecules and ions to pass
What is a channel protein?
The location of glycolysis to start the Cellular respiration process?
What is the Cytosol?
The hormone released by the pancreas into the bloodstream to send signals
What is Insulin?
The 4 phases of mitosis
What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
The process of adding H2O to break the bonds in a polymer
What is Hydrolysis?
The location of the Krebs cycle in the cellular respiration process
What is the Mitochondrial Matrix?
The reaction centers and light complexes in the light reactions
What are Photosystems?
Small, non-protein molecules and ions help relay the message and amplify the response in cellular communication
What are Secondary Messengers?
What is Phagocytosis?
A macromolecule group that only contains Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Phosphorus atoms
What is a Lipid?
An organelle that receives, modifies, then transports protein materials to exit the cell.
What is the Golgi Complex/Apparatus?
C4 and CAM plants use their adaptations to prevent this problematic effect
What is Photorespiration?
A process in an animals nervous system where neurons secret neurotransmitters that diffuse across the space between the nerve and the target cell
What is Synaptic Signaling?
When secretory cells release local regulators via exocytosis to an adjacent cell
Paracrine signalling