Genetics
Reproduction of genetically identical offspring from a single parent through mitosis
What is asexual reproduction?
Produces energy through cellular respiration
What is mitochondria?
An organism that consumes dead/ decaying matter
What is a decomposer?
The four types of macromolecules
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
This is the first step in cellular respiration
What is glycolysis?
The process by which cytoplasm is split
What is a cytokinesis?
Provides a barrier between the interior of the cell and its external environment. Semipermeable.
What is the cell membrane?
An organism that produces its own food
What is a producer?
The job of a lipid
What is storing energy?
This process occurs in yeast cells, makes CO2 and alcohol
What is alcohol fermentation?
The phase the cell spends the majority of its life in
What is interphase?
Process carried out by the chloroplasts in plant cells; converts light energy to chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The arrows in a food web represent
What is the flow of energy?
Enzymes are _________ and have a _______________________ relationship with the substrate.
What are proteins/catalysts and a lock and key relationship?
This is the reaction that makes glucose in photosynthesis
What is the Calvin cycle?
The process by DNA is copied within each cell
What is replication/mitosis
Organelle made up of flat vesicles that package things to leave the cell, such as hormones
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The first level in a trophic level food chain
What is a primary producer?
a chemical reaction where energy is released is
What is exothermic
This is the location of the light reactions in a chloroplast
What is a thylakoid?
The FOURTH stage of mitosis; the sister chromatids of each chromosome separate at the centromere and move to opposite ends of the cell.
What is anaphase?
There are two kinds of endoplasmic reticulum: rough and smooth. Which one works with ribosomes to produce and dispatch proteins in the cell?
What is the Rough ER?
A plant would be an example of
What is a producer?
This macromolecule is the structure of life functions
What is a protein?
This is the powerhouse of the cell
What is a mitochondria?