All about Cells
This person was first to observe living cells
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
These are often colorful and used to attract pollinators.
What are petals?
These characteristics describe an organism: live birth, warm-blooded.
What is a mammal?
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
These are the seven functions of life: metabolism, growth, reproduction, response, nutrition, excretion, _____________.
What is homeostasis?
The color of a chloroplast
What is green?
__________ are blood vessels taking blood away from the heart that has not yet reached a capillary.
What are arteries?
A heritable factor that consists of a length of DNA and influences a specific characteristic
What is a gene?
A mass of cells with no useful function to the organism
What is a tumor?
This is often seen as the opposite process to photosynthesis.
What is cellular respiration?
A _________ is a causative agent of disease.
What is a pathogen?
The specific position of a gene on a chromosome
What is the locus?
Prokaryotic cells divide by a very simple process called ____________________.
What is binary fission?
Root hairs increase the _____________ over which water and mineral ions can be absorbed by a factor of nearly three.
What is surface area?
A myofibril is composed of many side-by-side contracting units called ___________.
What are sarcomeres?
The start codon (think the beginning month of school)
What is AUG?
This formula is used to calculate the actual size of a specimen seen with a microscope.
What is magnification=size of image/by size of specimen?
_________ refers to the pressure in a cell that liquid exerts on the membrane and/or cell wall.
What is turgor?
A self-propagating wave of ion movements in and out of the neuron membrane.
What is an action potential?
Instead of glutamic acid, this is produced in sickle cell anemia.
What is valine?