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100

A proposed explanation for an occurrence based on available data, observations, or evidence.

What is a hypothesis?

100

What is a single celled organism with no membrane bound nucleus?

Prokaryote

100

The largest organelle in the cell, which contains genetic information and controls cell function.

What is a nucleus?

100

This organelle includes digestive enzymes which help cells to break down food and waste.

Lysosomes

100

The basic unit of a chemical element

Atom

200

A single celled organelle where photosynthesis happens?

Chloroplast

200

Term for an organism made up of a single cell?

Unicellular

200

A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait.

What is Mutation?

200

Segments of DNA that encode for proteins.

What are genes?

200

Building block of monomers and lipids

Fatty acids

300

A jelly like substance in which organelles are suspended.

Cytoplasm

300

During the frog disection, we had to cut through ______________ in order to discover the frog's organs?

Tissue

300

Small chemical unit that can join together with other small units to form larger units is called polymers.

Monomers

300

This term describes a mechanism that is regulatory and contributes to maintaining a state of equillibrium.

Homeostatic mechanism

300

What are the two reasons cells undergo cell cycle?

Growth and Repair

400

When we study plants or animals we are studying what form?

Biotic

400

What is similar to a storage unit which stores water, salts, proteins and carbohydrates in a cell?

Vacuole

400

The place where the enzyme and the substrate fit together.

Active site

400

The movement of substances across the plasma membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration without the need of energy.

What is passive transport?

400

What is the membrane bound organelle in eukaryotic cells?

Nucleus

500

This special macromolecule is encoded with genetic information, is capable of self-replication and can be used to identify a specific person.

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

500

If an animal cell were placed in a solution of salt water taken from the ocean, what would happen to the cell?

The cell would shrivel, shrink.

500

Simple sugar molecules that are a building block for polysaccharides.

Monosaccharides

500

This is what cells are made of.

Organelles

500

What is a single cell organelle that lacks a membrane bound nucleus?

Prokaryote

600

What type of cellular transport requires a cell to use energy?

Active Transport (Ex: Molecular Pump)

600

What is the term for a cancer-causing agent?

carcinogen

600

What are the purposes of checkpoints in the cell cycle?

To check that the cell is replicating without errors. Ex: the has replicated DNA correctly, organelles and cytoplasm has split correctly?

600

What stage of mitosis is shown?

Telophase

600

What are the two different types of tumors and the differences between them?

Malignant – cancer cells can breakaway from the tumor & be carried to other parts of the body/organs & form more tumors 

Benign – abnormal cells typically remain clustered together.