Vocabulary
This Nucleic Acid is made of two strands of nucleotides in a double helix, and carries hereditary information.
What is DNA?
This organelle is primarily used for storage in a cell
What is a vacuole?
All organisms must continue to exchange gases in their environment for this cycle to continue.
What is the carbon(oxygen) cycle?
To maintain the same number of chromosomes in the daughter cells as in the parent cell this would have to occur before a cell can divide by mitosis
What is replication?
This organic molecule forms waxes create a waterproof layer on the outside of some living organisms.
What are lipids?
This term explains how cells from the same organism can have such different shapes and functions
What is differentiation?
These small organ like structures can be found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
What are organelles?
This explains why animals are able to obtain nutrients by consuming other organisms or their products.
What is they are heterotrophic?
For a protein produced to have a different identity this would have to happen during protein production of mRNA.
What is a mutation?
In protein synthesis DNA contains the instructions used to make this.
What are proteins?
This term indicates that an offspring has two different alleles
What is Heterozygous?
These will determine the function of a cell
What are the genes or DNA instructions?
Scholars that follow certain rules at home and different rules at school are an example of what type of behavior?
What is conditioning?
In an mRNA sequence. Which nucleobase is paired with cytosine?
What is guanine?
These proteins are known as catalysts for biological reactions.
What are enzymes?
This term is used when a plant or animal has DNA from another organism
What is Transgenic?
A cell in a beaker of a solution has more water moving out of the cell.
What is hypertonic?
What is carrying capacity?
During translation, tRNA delivers amino acids to which organelles?
What are the ribosomes?
Bubbles of oxygen were produced by a freshwater plant were done as a result of this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This term explains why babies assume the first thing they see is their mother
What is imprinting?
For cells there are three ways of keeping homeostasis.
What are Passive Transport, Osmosis, and Active Transport?
A rapid depletion of natural resources is an indicator that what is happening to the population?
What is rapid growth?
cell mutations due to the use of some chemicals can cause this in animals
What is cancer?
This type of respiration helps the body of a runner keep up with the demand for energy when
cellular oxygen levels are low
What is anaerobic respiration?