Cell-ebrities
Keeping in Touch
Metabolism in Motion
Sugar Rush
Let There Be Light
100

In all cells, the cytoplasm is surrounded by the _______, whereas the _____ is found outside the plasma membrane of a plant cell.

What is the plasma membrane and the cell wall?

100

The correct sequence of steps in cell signaling.

Reception

Deactivation

Cell Response

Transduction

What is Reception, Transduction, Cell Response, and Deactivation.

100

The constructive phase of metabolism where the body uses energy to build complex molecules from smaller, simpler units.

What is anabolism?

100

The missing molecule in this equation.

Glucose + Oxygen ➔ Carbon Dioxide + Water + ____



What is ATP?

100

An organelle I may expect to find several of in a leaf cell where photosynthesis takes place.

A) Nucleus

B) Cell wall

C) Ribosome

D) Endoplasmic Reticulum

E) Chloroplast

What is a Chloroplast?

200

An organelle that is part of the endomembrane system.

A) Endoplasmic Reticulum

B) Mitochondria

C) Chloroplast

D) Centriole

E) Peroxisome

What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?

200

The two possible locations of intracellular receptors.

What are the outside of the plasma membrane and in the cytoplasm?

200

Two factors that can affect the activity of an enzyme.

What are pH and temperature?

200

The correct order of stages in Cellular Respiration.

ETC & Oxidative Phosphorylation

Glycolysis

TCA Cycle

Pyruvate Processing

What is Glycolysis, Pyruvate Processing, TCA Cycle, Oxidative phosphorylation & ETC.

200

A process that is not part of the "light reactions" of photosynthesis.

A) Oxidation of chlorophyll

B) Photolysis

C) Formation of NADPH

D) Calvin Cycle

What is the Calvin Cycle?

300

Formed by strands of transmembrane proteins that stitch adjacent plasma membranes together, creating a watertight, impermeable seal.

What are tight junctions?

300

The role of a secondary messenger in cell signaling.

What is relaying the signal received at the cell surface receptor?

300

A spontaneous chemical reaction that releases free energy into the system.

What is Exergonic?

300

The movement of hydrogen ions (protons) across a semipermeable membrane down their electrochemical gradient, which powers the enzyme ATP synthase to produce ATP.

A) Photorespiration

B) Chemiosmosis

C) Simple Diffusion

D) Substrate-level Phosphorylation

E) Fermentation

What is Chemiosmosis?

300

What ATP and NADPH produced during the light reactions are used for in the Calvin Cycle.

A) Split water molecules

B) Generate oxygen

C) Absorb sunlight

D) Reduction of carbon dioxide to sugars

E) Photolysis

What is Reduction of CO2 to sugars?

400

Considered the largest structure of cytoskeleton filaments and, together with other filaments, gives the cell shape and keeps the organelles in place.

What is a microtubule?

400

Category of cell signaling in which the cell that releases the signal also carries the receptor for it.

What is autocrine?

400

What is required for reactants to reach their transition state and is lowered by enzymes.

What is Activation Energy?

400

During lactic acid fermentation, the reducing agent used to synthesize lactate from pyruvate.

A) Oxygen

B) ATP

C) NADH

D) FADH

What is NADH?

400

The first step of the Calvin Cycle.

A) Regeneration

B) Reduction

C) CO2 Fixation

D) Synthesis of Sugar


What is CO2 Fixation?

500

One attribute that suggests mitochondria and chloroplasts may have once been free-living bacteria. 

What is

having their own circular DNA?

dividing independently of cellular division?

production and use of their own ribosomes?


500

In a phosphorylation cascade, the type of enzyme that typically phosphorylates to activate a signal and the type of enzyme that typically dephosphorylates to deactivate the signal.

Give both answers in order

What are kinases and phosphatases?

500

How an allosteric inhibitor prevents the substrate from binding in the active site during noncompetitive inhibition.

What is by changing the conformation of the active site?

500

The three products of glycolysis.

What are pyruvate, NADH, and ATP.

500

The process that replaces electrons lost from Photosystem II.

A) Photolysis (water splitting)

B) Chemiosmosis

C) Resonance Energy Transfer

D) Dark Reactions

What is Photolysis?