Rootin' For A Cause
A word root that means "to fear"
What is "phobia"?
Has DNA
What is both?
This organelle plays a role in breaking down waste products and damaged organelles with the use of digestive enzymes:
What is a lysosome?
Name an organelle that is unique to plant cells.
What are chloroplasts?
Large biomolecules are moved out of the cell via _________.
What is exocytosis?
The meaning of the word root "iso"
What is "same"?
Have membrane-bound organelles
What are eukaryotes?
Name a function of the Rough ER:
What is facilitates protein folding, or modify and transport proteins in vesicles to the Golgi body?
An increase in turgor pressure in plant cells is due to the influx of water into this organelle:
What is a vacuole?
This type of transport requires carrier proteins and external input of energy to move molecules against their gradient.
What is active transport?
The underlined root in the word endocytosis means:
What is inside? Or what is inner?
Have the ability to survive in extreme conditions:
What are prokaryotes (or what are Archaea)?
Describe two (2) main functions of the Golgi Apparatus.
What is receiving materials from the Rough ER, sorting and tagging materials, and sending materials within or out of the cell?
A solution that would cause animal cells to shrivel or crenate.
What is a hypertonic solution?
The meaning of the underlined root in the word "chromosome"
What is body?
Name two characteristics that are unique to prokaryotic cells:
What is the nucleoid? Or fimbriae? Or capsule?
** DAILY DOUBLE **
Name the organelle that is often dubbed as the "powerhouse of the cell". Then name the specific process that makes this organelle the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is mitochondrion? What is aerobic cellular respiration?
Name the two (2) main components of the plasma membrane.
What are the phospholipid bilayer and proteins?
Define tonicity.
What is "The ability of a solution to cause a cell to gain or lose water"?
The study of cells is:
What is cytology?
** DAILY DOUBLE **
Other than DNA, list three (3) characteristics that all cells have:
What are the plasma membrane, ribosomes, and cytosol (or cytoplasm)?
List four (4) organelles that are a part of the endomembrane system:
What are Vacuoles, Rough ER, Golgi Apparatus, Plasma Membrane, Lysosomes, Vesicles.
Describe how a nucleus differs from a nucleoid.
What is nucleus is found in eukaryotes, while nucleoid is found in prokaryotes?
What is nucleus contains DNA that is wrapped with a double membrane, whereas nucleoid is a region in prokaryotes where DNA is concentrated without a double membrane around it?
Define osmosis.
What is "osmosis is the movement of water across a semipermeable membrane along its concentration gradient"?