DNA
The building block of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
The organelle that supplies energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The result of mitosis (how many cells and number of chromosomes compared to parent cell).
What is one daughter cell with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell?
The type of organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph (or producer)?
The location of transcription in cells.
What is the nucleus?
The organelle in plant cells that captures sunlight and converts the energy into food.
What is the chloroplast?
The process used to produce reproductive cells (gametes).
What is meiosis?
The term used to describe the total amount of plant and animal species in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
The number of mRNA bases in a codon.
What is 3?
The cell organelle that stores water or waste products.
What is the vacuole?
The term for having only one set of chromosomes in a cell.
What is haploid?
A species that is introduced to an ecosystem but not native to an area. May cause long-term issues.
What is an invasive speices?
The amount of guanine in a section of DNA if the section has 30% cytosine.
What is 30%?
The cell organelle that processes and packages proteins and lipids.
What is the golgi apparatus/body?
What is a stem cell?
The effect an increase in the birth rate would have on a population.
What is an increase in population size?
The purpose of mRNA in cells.
What is to provide a copy of instructions for a protein that can go from the nucleus to the ribosomes?
The cell structure that helps maintain homeostasis by controlling the transportation of substances in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The time period of a person's life where there would be the most mitotic activity.
What is during the embryonic (baby) stage?
The importance of biodiversity in an ecosystem.
What is the ability to survival in changing conditions (disasters)?