Cell Types and Organelles
This is the basic unit of structure and function in every living thing.
What is a cell?
The cell membrane is composed of what macromolecule.
What are phospholipids?
What are lipids?
The phase where a cell spends most of its life, growing and performing functions.
What is interphase?
This element is the foundation of all organic compounds and can form long chains.
What is carbon?
This green pigment absorbs light energy within the chloroplast.
What is Chlorophyll?
This simple type of cell, like bacteria, lacks a true nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
The state reached when molecules are evenly spread throughout a space.
What is equilibrium?
The phase where the sister chromatids line up along the cell's equator.
What is metaphase?
These organic compounds are used for energy storage and make up the cell membrane.
What are lipids?
The light-independent reactions of photosynthesis, or the Calvin Cycle, take place in this fluid-filled space within the chloroplast.
What is the stroma?
This is a major difference between a plant cell and an animal cell besides chloroplasts.
What is a cell wall?
The process of a cell taking in large molecules by surrounding and engulfing them.
What is endocytosis?
The process where the cytoplasm divides to result in two separate daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
This organic molecule is made up of carbon , hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
What are proteins?
The waste gas released during cellular respiration.
What is CO2 Carbon Dioxide?
This internal framework of the cell provides support and is involved in movement.
What is the cytoskeleton?
In this type of solution, water moves in both directions equally because the solute concentration is the same inside and outside the cell.
What is an isotonic solution?
During this phase of mitosis, a nuclear membrane forms around each set of chromosomes.
What is telophase?
Nucleic acids are found in all living things and serve this key function in the cell.
What is genetic information storage?
The location where the Electron Transport Chain/Chemiosmosis occurs during cellular respiration.
What is the inner mitochondrial membrane?
This organelle functions like a cell's "post office," modifying, sorting, and packaging proteins into vesicles.
What is the golgi body?
The name for the structures in freshwater organisms that pump out excess water to maintain balance.
What are contractile vacuoles?
This is the general term for a tumor that continues to grow and is considered dangerous.
what is a malignant tumor?
The three parts of a nucleotide.
What is a phosphate group, sugar, and nitrogenous base?
The products of anaerobic respiration in humans that can lead to muscle fatigue.
What is ATP and Lactic Acid?