Homeostasis
Cell Energy
Cell Cycle
Mitosis
Vocabulary
100
The maintenance of a constant internal state in a changing environment.
What is homeostasis?
100
How do cells get energy?
What is breaking down materials, such as food, in which energy is stored?
100
In a multicellular organism, cell division produces new cells for _________, __________, and _________.
What is growth, development, and repair?
100
Cell division that forms two new nuclei that are identical
What is mitosis?
100
Tissue that transports water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant
What is Xylem?
200
___________ organisms must work together to maintain homeostasis through transport systems within the organism.
What is multicellular?
200
The process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
2 stages of the cell cycle that are NOT involved in mitosis
What is interphase and cytokinesis?
200
Mitosis phase in which chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell
What is metaphase?
200
Process in which prokaryotes, such as bacteria, reproduce
What is binary fission?
300
The main transport system in your body.
What is cardiovascular system?
300
The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food
What is cellular respiration?
300
The relationship between chromatids and chromosomes
Chromatids are half of a chromosome
300
Phase in which chromosomes condense into rod-like structures, nuclear membrane dissolves, and mitosis begins
What is prophase?
300
Structure that holds together two chromatids near the center in order to form a chromosome
What is a centromere?
400
What are the 4 things your cells need to do in order to survive?
What is obtain and use energy, make new cells, exchange materials, and eliminate wastes.
400
The reactants of the cell process that takes place in the mitochondria
What is glucose and oxygen
400
Cells spend the majority of the cell cycle in mitosis. True or false?
What is false?
400
Mitosis phase in which a nuclear membrane forms around each group of chromosomes producing two genetically identical nuclei
What is telophase?
400
The stage of the cell cycle in which the cytoplasm divides
What is cytokinesis?
500
What is the mechanism your body uses to regulate temperature after becoming too hot when running?
What is sweating?
500
The products of the cell process that takes place in the chloroplast
What is glucose and oxygen?
500
Type of cell that involves the formation of a cell plate in the middle of the cell before splitting
What is a plant cell?
500
What is the importance of a cell having a complete set of chromosomes after anaphase?
To ensure two identical daughter cells will be produced
500
Also known as "similar chromosomes" that make up the pairs of chromosomes in the nucleus of each body cell
What are homologous chromosomes?
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