Unit 1
the smallest unit inside an organism
What is cells?
Binds messenger RNA and transfers it to make polypeptides and proteins.
What are ribosomes?
A series of chemical reactions used by all aerobic organisms to release stored energy through oxidation.
What is the citric acid cycle?
The stage of meiotic or mitotic cell division in which the chromosomes move away from another.
What is anaphase?
The alleles of two+ different genes get separated into gametes independent.
What is the law of independent assortment?
The type of cells humans are made up of.
What are eukaryotic cells?
A unicellular organism with no organelles or nucleus.
What is bacteria?
Relating to or involving oxygen.
What is aerobic?
A form of reproduction in which the cells produced are genetically identical to the parent cell.
What is asexual reproduction?
An organisms genetic makeup as determined by it's alleles.
What is genotype?
Two variables, usually includes a hypothesis
What is a controlled experiment?
A rigid layer lying outside of the plasma membrane of plant and bacteria cells.
What is the cell wall?
A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of living cells that holds genetic information.
What is a chromosome?
When copies of the parents cell DNA is made.
What is the S phase?
A situation in which both alleles for a trait are dominant.
What is codominance?