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Characteristics of Living Things
Organelles
Cell Functions
Cell Boundaries
Cell Terms
100
The science that employs the scientific method to study living things
What is BIOLOGY?
100
A plant cell
What is a EUKARYOTE?
100
The location of protein assembly
What is the RIBOSOME?
100
Regulates what enters and leaves the cell and also provides protection and support.
What is the CELL MEMBRANE?
100
Concentration of the solute is the same throughout a system.
What is EQUILIBRIUM?
200
The ability of living things to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is HOMEOSTASIS?
200
A cell membrane and DNA
What are the stuructures that ALL cells have?
200
Converts the chemical energy stored in food into compounds that are most convenient for the cell to use.
What is the MITOCHONDRIA?
200
Mass of solute in a given volume of solution, or mass/volume
What is CONCENTRATION?
200
Solution has a higher solute concentration than the cell.
What is HYPERTONIC?
300
The reproductive term used to describe the process of budding and/or binary fission.
What is ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION?
300
Two structures contained in a plant cell, but NOT an animal cell.
What are the choloplast and cell wall?
300
Modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and other materials from the ER for storage in the cell or secretion outside of the cell.
What is the GOLGI APPARATUS?
300
Particles tend to move from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is DIFFUSION?
300
Process by which many cells take liquid from the surrounding environment.
What is PINOCYTOSIS?
400
The term used to describe that the combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials.
What is METABOLISM?
400
The portion of a cell outside of the nucleus.
What is the CYTOPLASM?
400
The site where lipid components of the cell membrane are assembled, along with proteins and other materials that are exported from the cell.
What is the ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM (ER)?
400
Moves materials in the opposite direction- against the concentration gradient.
What is ACTIVE TRANSPORT?
400
Carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, proteins
What are MACROMOLECULES?
500
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is a STIMULUS?
500
The two supporting structures that make up the cytoskeleton.
What are the MICROFILAMENTS and MICROTUBULES?
500
Located near the nucleus and help to organize cell division.
What are CENTRIOLES?
500
Protein channels that easily allow only a particular substance to cross different membranes.
What is FACILITATED DIFFUSION?
500
Proteins that act as biological catalysts.
What are ENZYMES?