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A proposed explanation for an occurrence based on available data, observations, or evidence.
What is a hypothesis?
100
What is a single celled organism with no membrane bound nucleus?
Prokaryote
100
The largest organelle in the cell, which contains genetic information and controls cell function.
What is a nucleus?
100
This organelle includes digestive enzymes which help cells to break down food and waste.
Lysosomes
100
The basic unit of a chemical element
Atom
200
A single celled organelle where photosynthesis happens?
Chloroplast
200
Term for an organism made up of a single cell?
Unicellular
200
A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait.
What is Mutation?
200
Segments of DNA that encode for proteins.
What are genes?
200
Building block of monomers and lipids
Fatty acids
300
A jelly like substance in which organelles are suspended.
Cytoplasm
300
During the frog disection, we had to cut through ______________ in order to discover the frog's organs?
Tissue
300
Small chemical unit that can join together with other small units to form larger units is called polymers.
Monomers
300
This term describes a mechanism that is regulatory and contributes to maintaining a state of equillibrium.
Homeostatic mechanism
300
What are the two reasons cells undergo cell cycle?
Growth and Repair
400
When we study plants or animals we are studying what form?
Biotic
400
What is similar to a storage unit which stores water, salts, proteins and carbohydrates in a cell?
Vacuole
400
The place where the enzyme and the substrate fit together.
Active site
400
The movement of substances across the plasma membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration without the need of energy.
What is passive transport?
400
What is the membrane bound organelle in eukaryotic cells?
Nucleus
500
This special macromolecule is encoded with genetic information, is capable of self-replication and can be used to identify a specific person.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
500
If an animal cell were placed in a solution of salt water taken from the ocean, what would happen to the cell?
The cell would shrivel, shrink.
500
Simple sugar molecules that are a building block for polysaccharides.
Monosaccharides
500
This is what cells are made of.
Organelles
500
What is a single cell organelle that lacks a membrane bound nucleus?
Prokaryote
600
What type of cellular transport requires a cell to use energy?
Active Transport (Ex: Molecular Pump)
600
What is the term for a cancer-causing agent?
carcinogen
600
What are the purposes of checkpoints in the cell cycle?
To check that the cell is replicating without errors. Ex: the has replicated DNA correctly, organelles and cytoplasm has split correctly?
600
What stage of mitosis is shown?
Telophase
600
What are the two different types of tumors and the differences between them?
Malignant – cancer cells can breakaway from the tumor & be carried to other parts of the body/organs & form more tumors
Benign – abnormal cells typically remain clustered together.