Genetics
RNA that carries copies of the instructions for assembling amino acids into proteins
What is mRNA?
This is the control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This process is how plants make food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is a sequence of energy flowing between organisms.
What is a food chain?
This process makes identical copies of cells.
What is mitosis?
DNA is an acronym that stands for a phrase.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This gas is a biproduct of photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the first organism in most food chains.
What is a producer?
There are ___ daughter cells made in mitosis.
What is two?
Enzyme that links together the chain of RNA nucleotides during transcription.
What is RNA Polymerase?
This is the movement of water through a membrane.
What is osmosis?
This gas is released during photosynthesis (breathed out by plants).
What is oxygen?
This is the variety of living things in an area.
What is biodiversity?
During this phase, chromosomes line up in the middle.
What is metaphase?
These are the building blocks of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
This type of transport requires energy.
What is active transport?
This process releases energy from food in cells.
What is cellular respiration?
This is the rapid growth of a population as more and more offspring are born.
What is exponential growth?
This is the phase when the nucleus divides.
What is mitosis?
This base pairs with adenine.
What is thymine?
This organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This is where cellular respiration mainly occurs.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the largest population size of a single species an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
The cell splits in two during this phase.
What is cytokinesis?