The Cell Membrane
The property of the cell membrane that allows some molecules through but not others.
What is semipermeability?
A solution that has a greater concentration of solute than a cell placed in it.
What is hypertonic?
The molecule created by cellular respiration that is used as energy in the cell.
What is ATP?
Mitosis is used for this.
What is growth/development/making new cells?
The name for a group of whales.
What is a pod?
The type of molecules that can most easily pass through the membrane.
What are small non-polar molecules?
Perfume spreading through the air is an example of this process.
What is diffusion?
The reactants of respiration.
What are oxygen and glucose?
Mitosis is used for this.
Creating gametes/reproduction.
The second largest country in the world by land area.
What is Canada?
The molecules that make up the majority of the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids?
Structures in a cell membrane that allow large or polar molecules to diffuse across the membrane.
What are protein channels?
The reactants of photosynthesis.
What are water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight?
The organelle that is used to organize the chromosomes before cell division.
What are centrioles?
This Pokemon type has the most resistances.
What is steel?
The four main functions of the cell membrane.
What are:
1. Protection
2. Taking in food/nutrients
3. Getting rid of waste
4. Communication
Placing a cell in a hypotonic environment will result in this.
What is cytolysis?
The pigment present in plants that helps them perform photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The process done only in meiosis where chromosomes exchange small portions of DNA before separating.
What is crossing over?
This type of herbivorous beetle is known for its elongated snout.
What is a weevil?
Proteins on the outside of the cell membrane used to pick up messages from nearby cells.
What are receptor proteins?
If a 1x1x1 cube were to increase in size to a 3x3x3 cube, its volume would increase by this much.
What is x 27?
An alternative way to capture energy besides photosynthesis used by some deep-sea organisms.
What is chemosynthesis?
This is how identical twins are produced.
When a sperm fertilizes an egg, and the resulting zygote splits into two before any further development.
A mammal filling this niche, also known a a myrmecophage, has evolved independently on 5/7 continents.
What is an anteater?
(armadillo, anteater, aardvark, pangolin, numbat, echidna)