Cell Parts
The organelle that controls everything that goes in and out of the cell
What is the plasma membrane?
The four most common elements found in living organisms.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
Anything that has weight and occupies space.
What is matter?
The two basic types of reproduction.
What are sexual and asexual?
A mixture in which particles larger than those in a solution are suspended in another medium. The particles will eventually settle.
What is a suspension?
The class of cell with no membrane-bound nucleus or organelles
What is prokaryotic cells?
What is carbohydrates?
The three subatomic particles.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
The function of RNA.
What is protein synthesis?
Chemicals that have the ability to resist changes in pH.
What is a buffer?
What is endocytosis?
Two molecules with the same molecular formula but different structural formulas.
What are isomers?
Two atoms of the same element have different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
Three differences between DNA and RNA.
What is the sugar group, bases, location, structure/strandedness, and/or function?
The levels of organization of a protein.
What is primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary?
The two differences between plant and animal cells.
What are plastids and cell wall?
The process by which a hydrogen atom from one molecule joins with a hydroxyl group from another molecule to form water, leaving the two molecules bonded to the same oxygen atom.
What is dehydration synthesis or condensation?
The two types of chemical bonds.
What are covalent and ionic?
A unit of DNA that can be passed onto offspring and encodes a characteristic.
What is a gene?
A highly specific protein that catalyzes reactions at a specific temperature and pH.
What is an enzyme?
What is the cell is the basic unit of structure and function in living organism?
Breaking down organic molecules by adding a water molecule.
What is hydrolysis?
The pH ranges of acids and bases.
Acids: pH under 7
Bases: pH over 7
The full name for DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
A chemical reaction with more stored energy in its reactants than its products.
What is an exergonic reaction?