Cell structure
What is Cytoplasm?
This is the gel-like substance that fills a cell, found outside the nucleus.
What is the Mitochondrion?
This organelle is where cellular respiration occurs, producing ATP.
What is Osmosis?
This is the movement of water from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is Histology?
This term refers to the study of tissues.
What is the Nucleus?
This organelle is known as the "control center" of the cell.
What are Cilia?
These small hair-like structures are responsible for movement or sweeping substances past the cell.
What is Selectively Permeable?
This describes a cell membrane's ability to allow only certain substances to pass into or out of the cell.
Who is Virchow?
This cell theory scientist demonstrated that cells come from other cells.
What are Phospholipids?
The cell membrane is made of two layers of this type of molecule.
What is the Chloroplast?
Photosynthesis occurs in this organelle, which contains the materials necessary for the process.
What are Membrane Pumps?
This active transport method involves specialized proteins in the cell membrane moving molecules in and out of cells.
What is a Prokaryote?
This type of cell, which includes bacteria, lacks a nuclear membrane.
What is the Nucleolus?
This dark-stained structure within the nucleus contains RNA and protein and is where ribosomes are made.
What are Ribosomes?
These small, non-membranous structures are the site where proteins are formed.
What is Swell (or Swell up and burst)?
A cell placed in distilled water will do this because the water moves into the cell.
What is a Centrifuge (or Ultracentrifuge)?
This is the instrument used to pull heavier parts of cells away from others, a process known as cell fractionation.
What is Chromatin?
In a eukaryotic cell, DNA and its associated proteins together are called this complex material.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum (or ER)?
The smooth form of this network of membranes is involved in removing toxins, not producing proteins.
What is a concentration gradient?
When molecules move from a high concentration to a low concentration, a process known as simple diffusion, they are moving down this type of concentration difference.
What is a Gene?
The genetic code for structures of proteins is found on a section of DNA, called this.