Cell Transport
How do particles move in diffusion? From what to what?
Higher to Lower
Which macromolecule does most jobs in a cell?
Protein
What organelle is the control center of the cell?
Nucleus
What phase of cell division do chromosomes start to move to different ends of the cell?
Anaphase
What type of cells carries messages around your body?
Nerve Cell
Osmosis is the diffusion of what?
Water
What makes up carbohydrates?
Sugar
What is the outside layer of an animal cell called?
Plasma Membrane
What phase do cells spend most of their lives in?
Interphase
What happens to the size of a cell in a hypertonic environment?
It will shrink
What type of transport involves something in the membrane that is always open?
Channel Protein
What is special about lipids and water?
They do not dissolve in water
What does the golgi apparatus do?
Fix and package proteins
What kind of cells does meiosis make?
Reproductive cells, sperm and egg
What do you call DNA when it is a thin spaghettis like structure?
Chromatin
What type of transport can be either active or passive?
Carrier Proteins
What is the function of nucleic acids?
Store genetic information
What two organelles create protein?
Rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and ribosome
What are two reasons a cell would divide?
To make more cells, to repair the cell, to repair an organ, to make an organism grow, to reproduce.
What cells help you see light and color?
Rods and Cones
What type of transport means to bring something into the cell with a vesicle?
Endocytosis
Which macromolecule is made of amino acids?
Proteins
What are the three organelles mostly in plant cells?
Chloroplast, Vacuole, Cell wall
What are 2 differences between meiosis and mitosis?
Mitosis makes 2 cells but meiosis makes 4, mitosis makes body cells but meiosis makes reproductive cells, mitosis goes through each phase once, meiosis goes through each phase twice, mitosis makes cells with 46 chromosomes, meiosis make cells with 23 chromosomes.
What way will water move in a hypotonic environment?
Into the cell