What elements make up carbohydrates?
What is carbon, oxygen and hydrogen?
Tiny structures inside a cell which carry out specific functions.
What are organelles?
What is the monomer of proteins?
What is amino acids?
A barrier located just inside all cells.
What is the cell membrane?
List 3 uses of lipids.
What is long term storage, insulation, protective coating, cell membrane structure?
When small particles enter the cell using a protein, but no energy, this type of transport mechanism is being used.
What is facilitated diffusion?
Active transport uses energy to move molecules ________ their concentration gradient from _______ to ________ concentration.
What is "against" their concentration gradient from low concentration to high concentration?
The membrane surrounding the nucleus.
What is the nuclear envelope/or nuclear membrane?
What is the monomer of carbohydrate?
What is a monosaccharide
If a solution is 80% water and 20% salt is placed in a beaker with 24% salt. What direction will the water move? What type of solution is this?
Hypertonic, water will move out.
The transport mechanism that brings large particles into the cell using the cell membrane and a vesicle is called this.
What is Endocytosis?
An organelle that captures energy from sunlight and uses it to produce food for the cell.
What is a chloroplast?
What do enzymes do?
What is speed up chemical reactions
If you take a fish adapted to salt water and put it in freshwater, what will happen to the fish's cells? What type of solution is this?
They will swell/hypotonic solution
The active transport mechanism that drives 3 sodium ions out of the cell in exchange for 2 potassium ions into the cell.
What is the sodium potassium pump?
Small, round structures containing chemicals that break down certain materials in the cell.
What are lysosomes?