DNA & RNA
The building block of DNA
Also accepted: sugar, phosphate, and base
Definition of a trait
What is a characteristic that can be inherited?
Purpose of the mitochondria
What is to provide energy for the cell?
Definition of a stem cell
What is an undifferentiated cell? (a cell without a function)
The function of DNA
To encode instructions for traits (proteins)
An example of an environmental mutagen.
What is UV (sunlight), smoking, radiation, etc?
The organelle in a plant cell captures sunlight and converts the energy into food
What is a chloroplast?
Definition of cell division.
What is the process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells for growth and repair?
The bases found in RNA.
What are adenine, uracil, guanine, and cytosine (AUGC)?
Definition of crossing over
What is the exchange of genetic information between two homologous chromosomes?
The cellular structure in an animal cell helps maintain homeostasis by controlling the transportation of substances into and out of the cell
What is the cell membrane?
Definition of cell differentiation.
What is the process during which young, immature (unspecialized) cells take on individual characteristics and reach their mature (specialized) form and function?
Going from no function to having a function
The number of RNA bases read to code for 1 amino acid.
What is 3?
During mitosis, the daughter cells are (haploid or diploid) and are (genetically identical or different) from the parent cell.
*Pick one from each parentheses
What are diploid and genetically identical?
Plant Cells differ from Animal Cells because plant cells contain a ________ and _______ .
What are a Cell Wall and Chloroplast?
What is during the embryonic stage?
Transcription takes place in the _________ and results in the production of a molecule of __________
What is the nucleus and RNA?
During meiosis, the daughter cells are (haploid or diploid) and are (genetically identical or different) from the parent cell.
*Pick one from each parentheses
What are haploid and genetically different?
List the following cell types from SMALLEST to LARGEST.
bacteria, eukaryote, prokaryote, virus
What is virus--bacteria--prokaryote--eukaryote?
While playing soccer, Allen falls and scrapes his knee. Over time, the wound on his knee heals. How does this happen?
What is cell division or cells in the damaged parts divide and produce more cells by undergoing mitosis?