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The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What are cells?
A collection of similar cells that work together to perform a single function
What is tissue?
The natural tendency for particles to spread out.
What is diffusion?
They are responsible for converting sugars into usable energy.
What are mitochondria?
The name for cells found in plants and animals. Contain cytoplasm bound organelles and a self-contained nucleus
What are eukaryotic cells?
A tool used by Robert Hooke to look at a piece of cork up close
What is a microscope?
The general name for the first part of a homeostatic loop. Responsible for first detecting a stimulus.
What is a receptor?
The molecule that is used up during active transport.
What is ATP?
The organelle also known as "The Highway of the Cell" because of its job to move things around within the cell
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
A possible explanation for a phenomenon supported by evidence
What is a theory?
A type of organism whose name literally translates to "before kernel" referring to the lack of a nucleus within the cell
What are prokaryotes?
Cells that can only perform specific functions and cannot survive on their own.
What are specialized cells?
A type of solution that causes animal cells to shrivel.
What is a hypertonic solution?
The only organelle found in plant cells but not animal cells.
What is the cell wall?
The strucutre our DNA is usually stored as.
What is chromatin.
A type of microscope used to look at things smaller than a wave of visible light.
What is an electron microscope?
The organ system responsible for sending long-distance signals around the body.
What is the endocrine system?
A type of passive transport that utilizes protein channels.
What is facilitated diffusion?
The primary component of the plasma membrane. They have hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails.
What are phospholipids?
The name for the bubbles that the Golgi Body releases its products in.
What are vesicles?
A category of organisms first discoverd by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
What are microbes/microscopic organisms?
The approximate number of different types of cells found within the human body
What is 200?
One of the two terms you can use to describe why a molecule that is small enough cannot pass through the phospholipid bilayer.
What is polar?
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What is lipid soluble?
Structures that reach outside of the cell and allow for the generation of currents and are responsible for some of our senses.
What are cilia?
A method of active transport that allows many things to be released at one time.
What is exocytosis.