Macromolecules
Parts of the Cell
Cell Biology
Cell Odds and Ends
DNA and Protein
100
Fat, One of the major components of the cell membrane.
What is lipids?
100
The place where DNA is.
What is the nucleus?
100
Membrane-bound organelles, has a nucleus and has complex linear DNA.
What is a eukaryote?
100
Three elements that only plant cells have.
What is a cell wall, chloroplasts and the central vacuole?
100
The central dogma of microbiology.
What is DNA to RNA to Protein to you?
200
A building block of protein.
What is an amino acid?
200
This organelle packages and ships proteins, like UPS.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
200
Invented the microscope and coined the term "cell".
Who is Robert Hooke?
200
The type of cell division that gametes go through.
What is meiosis?
200
What is a chromosome?
300
Carries the genetic code.
What is DNA?
300
This is organelle makes proteins, the workbench.
What is a ribosome?
300
The basic unit of life, cells come from other cells and all life is composed of cells.
What is the cell theory?
300
What is flagella?
300
The process of going from a section of DNA to RNA.
What is transcription?
400
Glucose is an example of this macromolecule.
What is a carbohydrate?
400
Storage of water and nutrients.
What is a vacuole?
400
Energy currency of the cell.
What is ATP?
400
The type of cell division that somatic cells go through.
What is mitosis?
400
What is DNA replication?
500
A sugar, phosphate and nucleic acids.
What is a nucleotide?
500
Responsible for digestion, destroying bacteria, worn out organelles and apoptosis (programmed cell death).
What is a lysosome?
500
The organelles in the endomembrane system.
What are the nucleus, ribosome, rough ER, golgi apparatus, secretory vesicle/lysosome?
500
Small, uncharged molecules that go through the cell membrane with the concentration gradient?
What is passive transport, simple diffusion?
500
The three types of RNA and what each does.
What is mRNA (carries message of gene from DNA), rRNA (subunits of a ribosome) and tRNA (transfers the correct amino acid to the growing polypeptide).