Cells/Cell Parts
What is a cell
The flexible transparent barrier that contains the cell contents and separates them from the surrounding environment.
What is the plasma membrane.
What are the organelles
a homogeneous mixture of two or more components
What is a solution.
What is mitosis
What are the three parts of a generalized cell?
Another name for water loving
What is hydrophilic
Chemical substances that may or may not be present depending on the specific cell type
what are inclusions.
The fluid that continuously bathes the exterior of our cells
What is interstitial fluid
The division of the cytoplasm
What is cytokinesis
The part of the cell that contains the DNA
What is the nucleus
Another term for water hating
What is hydrophobic
The powerhouse of the cell (producing ATP)
What is the mitochondrion
What are the 4 phases of mitosis
metaphase
anaphase
telophase
The double membrane around the nucleus is called
What is the nuclear membrane
3 types of membrane junctions
desmosomes
tight junctions
gap junctions
tiny, bilobed, dark bodies made of proteins and one variety of RNA called ribosomal RNA
What is passive transport
A DNA segment that carries the information for building one protein or polypeptide chain
What is a gene
The small, dark-staining round bodies in the nucleus; site of protein synthesis
What is the nucleolus
What is cytosol
System of fluid-filled cisterns that coil and twist through the cytoplasm
What is ER
Membrane transport that requires energy
What is active transport
A biological catalyst
what is an enzyme