Chemistry
The smallest basic unit of matter
What is an atom?
A network of proteins that is constantly changing to meet the needs of a cell.
What is the cytoskeleton?
The movement of molecules from areas of high concentration to regions of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
A molecule that transfers energy from the breakdown of food molecules to cell processes.
What is ATP?
The regular pattern of growth, DNA duplication, and cell division that occurs in eukaryotic cells.
What is the cell cycle
A substance made up of atoms of different elements bonded together in a certain ratio.
What is a compound?
The storehouse for most of the genetic information in your cells.
What is the nucleus?
The overall term for the movement of molecules from areas of lower concentration to areas of higher concentration.
What is active transport?
This is the full name of ADP.
What is adenosine diphospahte?
The four phases of the cell cycle.
What is G1, S, G2 and M phase?
Forms when atoms share a pair of electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
Tiny organelles that link amino acids together to form proteins.
What are ribosomes?
The difference in the concentration of a substance from one location to another.
What is concentration gradient?
The process that captures sunlight energy to make sugars that store chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The process that divides the cell cytoplasm.
What is cytokinesis?
What are the three important properties of water?
What is high specific heat, cohesion, and adhesion?
Small membrane-bound sacs that transport materials from place to place within the cell.
What are vesicles?
what is phagocyosis?
The reactants and products of the Calvin Cycle.
What is CO2 and glucose?
One-half of a duplicated chromosome.
What is a chromatid?
This is a polymer made up of monomers called amino acids.
What is a protein?
This describes the arrangement of molecules that make up a cell membrane.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
The diffusion of molecules across a membrane through transport proteins.
What is facilitated diffusion?
Cellular respiration cannot occur without this substance.
What is oxygen?
DNA wraps at regular intervals around these proteins.
What are histones?