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Cell Division and Death
Cell Components
Cell Analysis
Stem Cells
Final Category
100
the process that prevents abnormal cell growth from occurring by causing cell death
What is Apoptosis?
100
these are essential proteins that facilitate, or catalyze, biochemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
100
These cells squeeze between cells of the blood vessel walls to exit the circulation and reach a site of injury.
What are Leukocytes?
100
These cells are the most controversial of all stem cells.
What is Human Embyronic Stem Cells?
200
the phase in which the cell replicates its entire genome
What is S Phase?
200
This is a maze of interconnected membranous tubules and sacs where most protein synthesis occurs.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
200
the absence of this protein and the ingestion of dairy products causes several symptoms such as -severe and smelly gas and stool -diarrhea -constipation -bloating -abdominal cramping
What is lactase?
200
common places where adult stem cells are routinely extracted from.
What are Bone Marrow, Umbilical Cord?
300
the phase in which the cell resumes synthesis of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates
What is G(1) Phase?
300
Organelles that handle the waste in the cell
What are lysosomes?
300
this is the part of the cell where the proteins that carry out signal transduction reside.
What is the cytoplasm, embedded in the plasma membrane?
300
the ability of a cell to divide and produce all the differentiated cells in an organism
What is totipotent?
400
the stage in which chromosomes attach to the spindle at their centromeres and align along the equator.
What is Metaphase
400
a sac containing enzymes that breaks down and detoxifies various molecules
What is peroxisome?
400
-selectins (slow down white blood cells by binding to carbohydrates), -integrins (latch onto white blood cells), -adhesion receptor proteins (extend from capillary wall at injury site are categorized as ______ molecules.
What are cellular adhesion molecules (CAM)?
400
the first mammal to be cloned via nuclear transfer
What is Dolly?
500
the brief state where a cell temporarily contains twice the normal number of chromosomes, but has not yet physically divided.
What is Anaphase?
500
DAILY DAILY DOUBLE DOUBLE! three major types of elements that make up the cytoskeleton.
What are microtubules, microfilaments, intermediate filaments?
500
this condition prevents white blood cells from traveling to a site of injury in order to fight an infection.
What is Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
500
DAILY DOUBLE! the first US president to authorize federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
Who is George W. Bush?
500
this is the family of enzymes that carry out all forms of dna replication
What are DNA polymerases?