Cell Structure & Function
This organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and lipids for transport.
What is the Golgi Complex?
The diffusion of water across a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
A group of cells that work together to perform a specific function.
What is a tissue?
A type of cell division that reduces chromosome number by half and creates four unique gametes.
What is meiosis?
When a cell maintains its normal shape, it is in this type of solution.
What is isotonic?
This thin, flexible barrier surrounds the cell and regulates what enters and leaves.
What is the cell membrane?
Type of transport that requires energy.
What is active transport?
Type of tissue that covers the body’s surfaces and lines organs.
What is epithelial tissue?
During this stage of mitosis, chromosomes condense and the nuclear envelope breaks down.
What is prophase?
When a cell shrinks due to water loss.
What is a hypertonic solution?
This part of the cell contains digestive enzymes that break down waste and foreign materials.
What are lysosomes?
Requires no energy (ATP) and moves substances from high to low concentration.
What is passive transport?
Type of tissue used in specialized cells for contraction that generates force.
What is muscular tissue?
The process where RNA is translated into amino acids occurs here.
What is translation?
This membrane lines the intestines, bladder, and respiratory tract.
What is a mucous membrane?
These hairlike projections help move fluid around the cell.
What are cilia?
Traveling against a gradient means moving from low to high concentration — true or false?
What is true?
Tissue used to communicate between structures of the body.
What is nervous tissue?
A process in the nucleus where DNA is copied into RNA.
What is transcription?
This membrane covers the entire surface of the body and includes the epidermis and dermis.
What is the cutaneous membrane?
The three major parts of a cell are the nucleus, cytoplasm, and this structure.
What is the cell membrane?
Which example demonstrates active transport?
What is the sodium-potassium pump?
Which membrane produces fluid that lubricates joints?
What is the synovial membrane?
The overall function of a cell is to carry out necessary life functions like energy production and growth.
What is to sustain life?
The tissue type that makes up the outer layer of skin.
What is stratified squamous epithelium?