Cell Cycle
Cell Communication
Cell Parts
Macromolecules
Cellular Energetics
100
The word that is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary
What is incorrectly?
100
One can catch this but it is not thrown
What is a cold?
100
The largest mammal in the world
What is the blue whale?
100
The third largest state in America
What is California?
100
The number of bones in a shark's body
What is zero?
200
The genetic information copied during the S phase of the cell cycle
What is DNA?
200
The molecule that binds to the receptor to initiate signal transduction
What is a ligand?
200
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
200
The macromolecule that provides energy and building material
What are carbohydrates?
200
The organelle that completes cellular respiration
What is the mitochondria?
300
The cell cycle phase when sister chromatids are pulled apart
What is anaphase?
300
Paracrine signaling is when nearby cells send signals to each other. Cells can also send signals to themselves
What is autocrine signaling?
300
The genetic information organelle
What is the nucleus?
300
Adding this molecule will complete hydrolysis, breaking down a polymer into monomers
What is water?
300
The reactants of photosynthesis
What is sun energy, water, and carbon dioxide?
500
Cyclin combines with Cdk forming MPF, and eventually when enough accumulates the cell cycle can pass through this checkpoint
What is the G2 checkpoint?
500
The structure created when plant cells complete juxtracrine signaling
What is plasmodesmata?
500
The folds in the mitochondrial matrix
What is cristae?
500
The base nucleotide pairs in RNA
What is Adenine with Uracil and Guanine with Cytosine?
500
The cellular respiration process that oxidizes NADH and FADH2
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
600
A specific gene variant that can be dominant or recessive
What is an allele?
600
Estrogen is secreted by the ovaries and travels to a target cell, passing through the cell membrane. Then it binds to the estrogen receptor, entering the nucleus. This is an example of a type of cell signaling, and what estrogen is acting as
What is endocrine signaling and transcription factor?
600
The lipid that is known as a fluidity buffer in animal cell membranes
What is cholesterol?
600
Phosphorus uptake in plant cells likely contributes to the building of this macromolecule
What are nucleic acids?
600
Clostridium is a genus of bacteria that lives in soils and the intestinal tracts of animals. This is the energy creating process Clostridium likely carry out
What is fermentation?