Cell Metabolism
The organelle where cellular respiration takes place.
What are mitochondria?
DNA and RNA are examples of
What are nucleic acids?
The stage of the cell cycle in which replication occurs.
What is interphase?
All living organisms have this in common.
What are cells?
The movement of water molecules across a semipermeable membrane without the input of energy.
What is osmosis?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place.
What are chloroplasts?
The organic compound stored by cells as energy for later use.
What are lipids?
Certain chemicals cause cells to divide uncontrollably, causing __________.
What is cancer?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek used simple microscopes to observe tiny moving organisms and led other scientists to develop ___________.
What is the cell theory?
The movement of molecules from a high concentration to a low concentration without the use of energy.
What is passive transport?
This formula 6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight = 6C6H12O6 + 6O2 is known as
What is photosynthesis?
The main function of enzymes.
What is to speed up reactions by acting as catalysts.
The three purposes of cell division.
What are growth, reproduction, and repair?
True or false: The cell theory states that all cells are identical.
What is false?
The use of transport molecules and ATP to move molecules from a low concentration to a high concentration.
What is active transport?
The energy-releasing process that does not require oxygen?
What is fermentation
The characteristic used to determine if a cell is a eukaryote.
What is the presence of a nucleus?
In cytokinesis _____________ are produced.
A microscope has a 10x eyepiece lens. The total magnification of the microscope if using the 45x objective lens.
What is 450x?
The change in shape that will occur if a red blood cell placed into a solution in which the concentration of salt is higher than it is inside the cell.
What is shrink?
A plant's ability to ______________ would be affected if it did not have chlorophyll?
What is capture sunlight?
A cell that has a lot of endoplasmic reticula, Golgi bodies, and ribosomes specializes in _____________.
What is producing, packaging, and exporting proteins?
The structure of the chromosome during prophase and metaphase.
What is two sister chromatids joined at the centromere.
The idea that life could spontaneously arise from non living matter, was disproven by the findings that support this part of cell theory.
What is that cells come from pre-existing cells?
The process that pumps sodium out of a nerve cell that has 19 units of sodium into an area with 155 units of sodium.
What is active transport?