Evolution of Life
Proteinoid microspheres were created in a lab by this scientist.
What is Sydney Fox?
A major component of the cell walls of fungi.
What is chitin?
This substance helps strengthen and waterproof cell walls.
What is lignin?
What is apoptosis?
This is referred to as the "post office" of the cell because it packages and sorts proteins.
The span of time where low levels of oxygen in the atmosphere resulted in a delay in evolution.
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur?
The phase of the cell cycle that DNA gets replicated
What is S phase?
Type of plastid that lack inner membranes and pigments.
What is leucoplast?
How water is transported up through the plant.
What is xylem?
This is important because it absorbs UV light in the atmosphere.
What is the ozone?
This type of fat is solid at room temperature.
What is saturated fat?
Structural proteins found in the cell wall.
The process by which organisms break down organic molecules in the presence of oxygen.
What is respiration?
What is prophase?
These were some of the earliest known fossils.
What are stromatolites?
Cutin, suberins, and waxes are all examples of this type of macromolecule.
What is lipid?
This type of lipid assists in keeping the structure of the phospholipid bilayer.
What are sterols?
These are plastids that lack chlorophyll, but contain carotenoids.
The phase of mitosis where the cell plate is formed.
What is cytokinesis?
This is where secondary growth originates from
What are the lateral meristems?
The type of lipid found in the underground part, in woody stems and healed wounds.
What is suberins?
List off the cell wall layers beginning on the inside of the cell.
secondary cell wall, primary cell wall, middle lamella.
Two guard cells that can open and close to assist in gas exchange.
What is stomata?
What is cutin?