Macromolecules
What are the 4 Macromolecules?
What is Proteins, Lipids, Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids
What organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell?
What is Mitochondria
What process converts light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose?
What is Photosynthesis
What is the primary function of the cell membrane?
What is Regulate what enters and leaves the cell
What is the term for a cell maintaining a stable internal environment?
What is Homeostasis (Trick Question)
What is the role of enzymes in chemical reactions?
What is, Lower activation energy to speed up reactions
What organelle is responsible for synthesizing proteins?
What is Ribsomes
What molecule serves as the primary energy currency of the cell?
What is ATP
Bulk movement of large substances OUT of the cell using vesicles is known as?
What is Exocytosis
Movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration without energy is called?
What Is Passive Transport
What is the function of Nucleic Acids?
What is to instruct/hold genetic info
What organelle contains digestive enzymes to break down waste and cellular debris?
What is Lysosomes
Where does the Light-Dependent Reaction of photosynthesis take place?
What is Thylakoid Membranes
What type of transport uses protein channels to move molecules down their concentration gradient?
What is Facilitated Diffusion
The movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane is called what?
What is Osmosis
What are the 4 Macromolecule building blocks?
What is Amino Acids, (Fatty Acids and Glycerol), Monosaccharides, and Nucleotides.
What organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins for transport?
What is Golgi Apparatus
What are the 3 products of cellular respiration?
What is Carbon dioxide, water, and ATP
What transport mechanism requires energy (ATP) to move molecules against a concentration gradient?
What is Active Transport
If a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, what will happen to the cell?
What is, It will shrink
How many types of Amino Acids are there normally?
What is 20
What organelle synthesizes lipids and detoxifies chemicals?
What is The Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
Where does Glycolysis occur within the cell?
What is Cytoplasm
What molecule carries genetic information from the nucleus to the ribosome?
What is mRNA
A solution with a lower concentration of solutes compared to the inside of a cell is?
What is Hypotonic