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A proposed explanation for an occurrence based on available data, observations, or evidence.
What is a hypothesis?
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What is a single celled organism with no membrane bound nucleus?
Prokaryote
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The largest organelle in the cell, which contains genetic information and controls cell function.
What is a nucleus?
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This organelle includes digestive enzymes which help cells to break down food and waste.
Lysosomes
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The basic unit of a chemical element
Atom
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A single celled organelle where photosynthesis happens?
Chloroplast
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Term for an organism made up of a single cell?
Unicellular
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A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait.
What is Mutation?
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Segments of DNA that encode for proteins.
What are genes?
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Building block of monomers and lipids
Fatty acids
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A jelly like substance in which organelles are suspended.
Cytoplasm
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During the frog disection, we had to cut through ______________ in order to discover the frog's organs?
Tissue
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Small chemical unit that can join together with other small units to form larger units is called polymers.
Monomers
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This term describes a mechanism that is regulatory and contributes to maintaining a state of equillibrium.
Homeostatic mechanism
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What are the two reasons cells undergo cell cycle?
Growth and Repair
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When we study plants or animals we are studying what form?
Biotic
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What is similar to a storage unit which stores water, salts, proteins and carbohydrates in a cell?
Vacuole
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The place where the enzyme and the substrate fit together.
Active site
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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?
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What is the membrane bound organelle in eukaryotic cells?
Nucleus
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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)
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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.
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Simple sugar molecules that are a building block for polysaccharides.
Monosaccharides
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This is what cells are made of.
Organelles
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What is a single cell organelle that lacks a membrane bound nucleus?
Prokaryote
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What type of cellular transport requires a cell to use energy?
Active Transport (Ex: Molecular Pump)
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What is the term for a cancer-causing agent?
carcinogen
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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?
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What stage of mitosis is shown?
Telophase
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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.