Cell Organelles
Exclusive to plant cells. Convert solar energy into chemical energy.
What is chloroplasts?
The substances changed during a chemical reaction.
What are the reactants?
Water is given this name because its property of absorbing so many other substances.
What is universal solvent?
Includes fats, oils, and cholesterol.
What are lipids?
Carbon's ability to form many bonds comes from these 4 electrons.
What are valence electrons?
Links amino acids to form proteins.
What is ribosomes?
A chemical reaction that absorbs more energy than it releases.
What is endothermic?
A bond that results from an attraction between a slightly positive hydrogen atoms and a slightly negative atoms-- often oxygen or nitrogen.
What is a hydrogen bond?
Chains of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms. Can be saturated or unsaturated.
What are fatty acids?
When a reaction takes place at an equal rate in both directions, the reactant and product concentrations stay the same.
What is equilibrium?
Supports and shapes the cell. Assists in cell division.
What is the cytoskeleton?
The amount of energy needed to break a bond between two atoms.
What is bond energy?
A mixture of substances that is the same throughout- a homogenous mixture.
What is a solution?
The covalent bonds formed between amino acids.
What are peptide bonds?
The greek prefix meaning 'in'.
What is endo?
What is the nuclear envelope?
Plant and animal cells break down this to get usable energy.
What are sugars?
The attraction between molecules of different substances.
Includes sugars and starches. Main source of chemical energy in cells.
What are carbohydrates?
Cell processes, such as diffusion and osmosis, do not require energy from the cell to function.
What is passive transport?
The interior portion of the Endoplasmic Reticulum where proteins and lipids are produced.
What is the lumen?
The amount of energy needed to be absorbed to start a chemical reaction.
Water's property known for strongly resisting changes in temperature.
What is high specific heat?
Amino acids are the monomer to..
What are proteins?
When a solution has more solutes than a cell. Causes the cell to shrivel.
What is hypertonic?