Cell Structure and Function
The organelle that is responsible for controlling what comes in and out of a cell.
What is the plasma membrane?
Cells that are generally larger and contain membrane bound organelles.
What are eukaryotic cells?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
DNA in its relaxed form. Often seen when the cell is in interphase.
What is chromatin?
The organelle that ALL cells have.
Transport that does NOT require additional energy.
What is passive transport?
Two organelles found in a plant cell but not an animal cell.
What are cell wall, large central vacuole, and chloroplast?
The two main types of metabolic pathways.
What are catabolic and anabolic?
Undifferentiated cells.
What are stem cells?
The study of the flow/transformation of energy.
What is thermodynamics?
This organelle is where energy is created within a cell.
What is mitochondria?
The two parts of the plasma membrane. Include the terms polar and non-polar in your answer.
The polar heads and the non-polar tails.
Another name for accessory pigments.
What are carotenoids?
Cell programmed death.
What is apoptosis?
The point on a chromosome where the spindle fibers attach.
What is the centromere?
The process in which substances are removed from a cell.
What is exocytosis?
A solution that will cause a cell to shrivel.
The site of light dependent reactions during photosynthesis.
What is the thylakoids?
The stage of mitosis in which the nucleolus disappears, DNA condenses in chromosomes, and microtubules begin to form.
What is prophase?
The end product of glycolysis.
What are two pyruvates?
The three parts of cell theory.
All cells come from pre-existing cell.
All things are made of cells.
Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in an organism.
The site of protein synthesis in cells.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
The products of cellular respiration.
What are water, carbon dioxide, and ATP?
The three stages if interphase.
What are G1, S, and G2?
The process that occurs when there is a lack of oxygen.
What is fermentation?