Life & Microscopy
Cell Biology
Cell Membranes & Transport
DNA Structure & Repair
Cell Cycle
100
The study (knowledge, science) of life.
What is Biology?
100
Three elements common to all living cells.
What are any three of: Plasma Membrane, Cytoplasm, Chromosome, Ribosome, Cytoskeleton?
100
These are three main factors that influence the fluidity of the plasma membrane.
What are: Composition of fatty acids, Temperature, and the amount of cholesterol?
100
The type of bond that links the deoxyribose sugars and phosphate groups in an alternating pattern, forming a sugar–phosphate backbone of DNA
What are phosphodiester bonds?
100
A method of asexual reproduction in prokaryotic organisms
What is Binary Fission?
200
Display order, Harness and utilize energy, Reproduce, Respond to stimuli, Exhibit homeostasis, Grow and develop, Evolve
What are 7 characteristics shared by cellular life forms?
200
An aqueous solution found in all living cells containing ions, various organic molecules, and organelles.
What is the cytosol?
200
This is the term used to describe phospholipid hydrocarbon tails that contain double bonds.
What is unsaturated?
200
The term given to the type of DNA replication in which each new double helix has one old strand, derived from the parental DNA molecule, and one new strand.
What is semiconservative replication?
200
The four coordinated processes used in the cell division cycle of most cells.
What are: Cell growth, DNA replication, Distribution of the duplicated chromosomes to daughter cells, and Cell division?
300
He looked at cork through a microscope and named the tiny compartments he observed cellulae.
Who is Robert Hooke?
300
This is the outer coating of this prokaryotic cell as seen in the image.
What is the capsule?
300
The term for a protein channel that entirely spans the plasma membrane.
What is a transmembrane protein?
300
The enzyme used to unwind the DNA strands during the replication process.
What is DNA Helicase?
300
This term is defined as the dividing of cytoplasm between daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
400
The ratio of the object’s image size to its real size
What is magnification?
400
This system divides eukaryotic cells into functional and structural compartments.
What is the endomembrane system?
400
The net movement of a substance from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
400
The name of the complex that contains key proteins and enzymes for DNA replication.
What is the Replisome?
400
The stage of Mitosis seen in this image:
What is Metaphase?
500
This type of microscope provides images like this:
What is a Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)?
500
This cellular process uses the plasma membrane to engulf a large particle
What is phagocytosis?
500
The process shown in this image.
What is Receptor-mediated Endocytosis?
500
This is a type of repair mechanism that corrects errors made during replication that escape proofreading.
What is mismatch repair?
500
The proper name for miRNA genes.
What is Mitochondrial RNA genes?