Membrane Transport
Cell Structure & Function
Cellular Respiration
Macromolecules
Miscellaneous
100
Channels that allow water to pass through the membrane quickly.
What are aquaporins?
100
The localized area of the cell where bacterial chromosomes can be found.
What is the nucleoid?
100
The full name of ATP.
What is adenosine triphosphate?
100
A three carbon molecule that three fatty acids are linked to to make a fat.
What is glycerol?
100
When some substances can cross a membrane more easily than other substances can.
What is selective permeability?
200
Type of diffusion powered by diffusion along an electrochemical gradient.
What is passive transport?
200
Projections that allow the cell to move.
What are cilia or flagella?
200
The metabolic pathway that regenerates NAD+ and allows glycolysis to continue in the absence of an electron acceptor.
What is fermentation?
200
The bond that links together amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
200
A substance that lowers the activation energy of a reaction and increases the rate of the reaction.
What is a catalyst?
300
The hypothesis that states that membranes are made of phospholipids and proteins, and the overall structure is dynamic and continually changing.
What is the fluid-mosaic model?
300
The pinching off of the plasma membrane that results in the uptake of material from outside of the cell.
What is endocytosis?
300
The product of glycolysis.
What is pyruvate?
300
The type of monosaccharide used in structural molecules.
What is beta glucose?
300
When the solution outside the membrane has a lower concentration of solutes than the interior.
What is a hypotonic solution?
400
When a gradient set up by a pump provides the potential energy to power the movement of a different molecule against its particular gradient.
What is secondary active transport or cotransport?
400
One of the two organelles that contain DNA independent of the main chromosome.
What is the mitochondria or chloroplast?
400
The cycle that starts with acetyl CoA and ends with carbon dioxide.
What is the citric acid cycle?
400
The three components of a nucleotide.
What is a phosphate group, a five carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
400
The base that exists in DNA but not in RNA, and the base that replaces it in RNA.
What are thymine and uracil?
500
Proteins found on only one side of the membrane.
What are peripheral membrane proteins?
500
Centers for oxidation reactions in the cell to eliminate toxins.
What are peroxisomes?
500
The step in which most of the ATP made in cellular respiration is produced.
What is the ETC, and more specifically, ATP synthase. (25 out of the 28 total ATP produced)
500
The most abundant organic compound on Earth. (HINT: it's a carbohydrate)
What is cellulose?
500
The type of regulation where regulatory molecules bind at a location other than the active site.
What is allosteric regulation?
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