Characteristics of Living Things
Cells and Cellular Transport
Cell Division
DNA and Protein Synthesis
Random
100
___________ is maintaining an internal environment. Getting a fever when you are sick is an example.
What is homeostasis?
100
Bacteria are an example of ______________ cells.
What is prokaryotic?
100
The cell spends 90% of the time here
What is interphase?
100
nucleic acid with the sugar ribose
What is RNA?
100
This is the powerhouse of the cell
What is mitochondria?
200
Term used to defined living things in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
200
One similarity between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells is that they BOTH have _________.
What is DNA?
200
type of cell division in bacteria
What is binary fission?
200
Responsible of unzipping DNA
What is helicase?
200
bond together to make a protein
What are amino acids?
300
___________ is the combination of of chemical reactions and through which organisms build up or break down materials to create energy
What is metabolism?
300
What happens to a cell in an isotonic solution?
stays the same
300
Human body cells contain two complete sets of chromosomes. These cells are known as ____________ cells.
what is diploid?
300
in eukaryotes DNA replication happens in
What is the nucleus?
300
A sequence of THREE nucleotides found in the DNA of a chromosome codes for a specific protein or trait. This section of DNA is known as a(n) _____.
What is a codon?
400
These are the the 6 elements that make up 98% of all living things
What is CHNOPS?
Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorus Sulfur
400
Type of transportation that requires energy
What is active transport?
400
Normal cells will undergo programmed cell death if they detect damage that cannot be repaired. Programmed cell death is known as _____________.
what is apoptosis?
400
piece of DNA that codes for a protein
What is a gene?
400
Name the 3 different types of RNA. What is each of their jobs / function?
500
What are the characteristics of all living things?
Cellular Organization: Made of cells
Metabolism: organisms build up or break down materials to create energy
Homeostasis: Tendency of resisting change in order to maintain a stable, relatively constant environment
Respond to stimuli: organisms react to the environment
Heredity: All living things’ genetic code is almost identical to every other living things genetic code on Earth
Reproduction: Sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction
Growth and Development: increasing in size, transformation
Evolution: species evolve over time to adapt
500
The cell membrane maintains ______________ by controlling what enters and leaves cells
What is homeostasis?
500
specialized cells that have a specific function
What is differentiated cells?
500
Two steps of protein synthesis
Transcription and Translation
500
Explain the role of stem cells in our body
They're the only cells that make specialized (differentiated) cells to replenish or repair specific cell types.
They continuously renew and divide to make exact replicas of themselves.