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Parts of a Cell
The Nucleus
Cell Division
Heredity
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100
the control center of the cell
What is the nucleus?
100
chemical that directs life activities, "blueprint of life"
What is DNA?
100
What is the first step in cell division?
What is the chromosomes are duplicated?
100
checkerboard type diagram used to determine possible offspring combinations
What is the Punnett Square?
100
controls what enters and leaves the cell
What is the cell membrane?
200
structure that releases the stored energy
What is the mitochondria?
200
These split during cell division.
What are chromosomes?
200
Name the two types of cell division.
What are meiosis and mitosis?
200
trait that gives an organism its appearance
What is dominant?
200
helps a plant make its own food
What are chloroplast?
300
storage spaces in a cell
What are vacuoles?
300
surrounds the nucleus and allows materials to go in and out of the nucleus
What is the nuclear membrane?
300
the process of forming reproductive cells
What is meiosis?
300
trait that is masked, covered, or hidden
What is recessive?
300
If a cell is very active, it needs more _____________.
What are mitochondria?
400
jellylike substance in a cell
What is cytoplasm?
400
segment of DNA that controls traits of offspring
What are genes?
400
the process of making body cells
What is mitosis?
400
A tall parent and a short parent produced offspring that were all tall. The short trait is _____________.
What is recessive?
400
Name the three parts of cell theory.
What are cells are the basic building blocks of all living things, all life activities take place in cells, new cells come from existing cells.
500
these two parts are found only in plant cells, not animal cells
What are chloroplasts and cell wall?
500
What is meant by "DNA is the blueprint"?
What is DNA contains all the information about the organism?
500
Draw meiosis.
Cells divide twice and end up with 4 new cells with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
500
Draw a Punnett Square with the following parents. Tt an tt. What is the probability of having a tall child?
What is 2 out of 4?
500
Draw and label the following parts of a cell: nucleus, nuclear membrane, cell wall, cell membrane, and chromosomes.
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