This type of cell makes up many single celled bacteria and does not have a nucleus to contain its DNA
What is a Prokaryotic Cell?
The organelle that contains the cell's genetic material and is also referred to the cells control center.
What is the Nucleus?
The outer barrier in every type of cell that regulates what moves in and out of it.
What is the Cell Membrane?
the term for the diffusion of water.
What is Osmosis?
the basic component of all living things
what is a cell?
This type of cell can make up single celled and multicellular organisms.
What is a Eukaryotic Cell?
What is the Mitochondria?
Two words describing the main structure of the membrane and and what it is composed of?
What is a lipid bilayer?
What is a phospholipid bilayer?
What is Diffusion?
to maintain a stable and survivable state of being.
the concept that all living things are made of cells, new cells are made from existing cells, and they are the most basic components of all living things.
What is Cell Theory?
the organelle that is responsible for converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and can sometimes be found in single celled organisms.
the lipid part of a phospholipid that repels water
what is the hydrophobic tail?
The fuel that gives energy for active transport to occur
What is ATP?
The term that DNA stands for.
what is Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What are Plant Cells and Animal Cells?
the organelle that produces proteins by assembling them either in the cytoplasm or in the rough ER
What is a Ribosome?
The name for molecule, an example would be aquaporin, that allows certain things to pass through a membrane much more easily
what is a channel protein or transport protein?
this is the term for when a solution has more solute in it compared to the cell it surrounds
A polymer or long chain of amino acids
What is a Protein
the 2 main features that distinguish a plant from an animal cell
what are a cell wall and chloroplasts?
the organelle that acts as the post office or mailroom of a cell by tagging, packaging, and sending out various substances needed for the cell
what is the Golgi Apparatus
the components embedded into a cell membrane that allow it to recognize other cells.
What are carbohydrates?
process of moving things up the concentration gradient by using adenosine triphosphate for energy
What is Active Transport?
the molecule produced via photosynthesis and whose chemical formula is C6H12O6
What is Glucose?