Cell Basics
The basic unit of life of which every living thing is made.
What is the cell?
The rigid outside of a plant cell to keep the structure of the cell.
What is a cell wall?
The last phase of cell division where the cell containing double of everything splits into two daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
The first person to propose a theory of evolution with the added idea of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This is the process where a parent plant reproduces asexually. A part of a the plant known as a bud develops into a new identical daughter plant.
What is budding?
A cell divides into two identical copies of the mother. These copies are referred to as daughters.
What is mitosis?
The whip like tail found on some bacteria.
What is a flagellum?
In this phase, everything else is copied and this happens after the phase where DNA is copied. All organelles are prepared for division in this phase.
What is telophase?
A mistake, damage, or oddity in the genetic code and is the reason for natural selection and evolution.
What is a mutation?
The male plant sperm cell for sexual reproduction and is spread around with certain organisms, weather, and climate.
What is pollen?
The first individual to observe cells with a microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
The center and most important part of the cell containing the DNA and all instructions for the cell.
What is the cell nucleus?
This is when a cell divides into four cells containing only half of the original set of chromosomes.
What is meiosis?
This is when multiple species evolve in a similar fashion when not directly related with each other.
What is convergent evolution?
The type of plant whose reproductive female structure is a cone. Pine trees are an example.
What is gymnosperm?
An organism made of many cells rather than a singular cell.
What is a eukaryote?
The jelly like substance containing the components of the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
The DNA ravels up into tightly coiled chromosomes still scattered throughout the nucleus in this phase of cell division.
What is prophase?
The island chain Darwin visited to observe his hypothesis of evolution. He noticed finches had evolved to survive.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
The entirety of the reproductive structure found in a flower.
What is the pistil?
A single celled organism without an organized structure and capable of supporting its life.
What is a bacterium?
The organelle of a plant cell that contains a green pigment and is capable of making a molecule, glucose, to store future usable energy for the cell.
What is the chloroplast?
After the chromosomes are neatly lined up, they are split in half in this cell division phase.
What is anaphase?
This phrase refers to the ability of a species or a singular organism to succeed among others in natural selection.
What is ‘survival of the fittest?’
The tip of a flowers reproductive structure where the male plant sperm is collected and sent down to the ovary and ovule.
What is the stigma?