Chemical Compounds in Cells
The Cell in Its Environmentt
Photosynthesis and Cell Division
Respiration and Cell Division
Cell Division
100
All organic compounds contain this element.
What is carbon?
100
This term refers to the movement of molecules fron an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
100
oxygen and sugars are the products of this process.
What is photosynthesis?
100
The equations for photosynthesis and respiration are related in this way.
What are opposite equations?
100
The cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei.
What is mitosis?
200
This term refers to the diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
200
The cells use the energy in sunlight to make food.
What happens during photosynthesis?
200
Together, respiration and photosynthesis keep the levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere _________ ____________
What is fairly constant?
200
Two new daughter cells are formed during this phase of cell division.
What is cytokinesis?
300
Small molecules called _________ make up proteins.
What are amino acids?
300
This terms refers to the movement of materials through a cell membrane with the use of the cell's energy.
What is active transport?
300
These parts of a plant capture energy from sunlight during photosynthesis.
What are chlorophyll and pigments?
300
During cytokinesis in plant cells, a __________ ___________ forms across the middle of the cell.
What is a cell plate?
300
The regular cycle of growth and division that cells undergo.
What is the cell cycle?
400
When two or more elements combine chemically they form a ____________.
What is a compound?
400
This term refers to the movement of materials through a cell membrane without the use of the cell's energy.
What is passive transport?
400
Small openings called _______ allow carbon dioxide to enter a leaf.
What is the stomata?
400
Alcoholic fermentation occurs in this compound.
What is yeast?
400
The stage of the cell cycle that follows mitosis.
What is cytokinesis?
500
The sides of the DNA ladder are made of molecules of deoxyribose and _____________.
What is phospate?
500
Inlike passive transport, active transport requires the cell to use its own_________.
What is energy?
500
A ___________ holds the two chromatids of a chromosome together.
What is a centromere?
500
Replication occurs during this stage of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
500
The part of a cell is copied during replication.
What is DNA?
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