Vocab (Chemical) Compounds)
Organic Compounds
Vocab (Cell Transport)
Types of Transport
Misc.
100

An energy rich organic compound such as fat or oil.

What is a lipid?

100
Organic compounds contain the element carbon, while inorganic substances do not.
What is the difference between organic and inorganic substances?
100
It allows some substances to pass through while others cannot.
What does it mean to be selectively permeable?
100
Passive Transport
What is the type of cell transport that doesn't use energy?
100

Nucleic acids are found here.

What is in the nucleus?

200
an energy rich organic compound such as sugar or starches.
What is a carbohydrate?
200
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic acids, and Proteins
What are the four major types of organic compounds?
200
the process by which molecules tend to move from an area of high concentration to low concentration.
What is diffusion?
200
Active Transport
What is the type of transport that does use energy?
200

Diffusion of water in a cell is called

What is osmosis?

300
a protein that speeds up chemical reactions in cells
What is an enzyme?
300
Sugars, fats, enzymes, and DNA.
Give an example of each major organic compound.
300
the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
300
Passive- High to low Active- Low to High
How do molecules move in Passive and Active Transport?
300

Cell membranes control what comes in and out so they are

What is selectively permeable?

400
Deoxyribonucleic acid and Ribonucleic acid
What are the two kinds of nucleic acids?
400
a large organic molecule made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and in some cases sulfur.
What is a protein?
400
Passive and Active Transport
What are the two types of cell transport?
400
1. Part of the cell membrane engulfs the molecule. 2: The cell must use energy and transport proteins to bring it in.
What is endocytosis ?
400

Any substance that cannot be broken into smaller substances is called an

What is element?

500
a very large organic molecule that is made of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
What is a nucleic acid?
500
monosaccharides, fatty acids, amino acids and nucleotides
Give an example monomer for each organic compound type.
500
Facilitative Diffusion
What is diffusion with the help of transport proteins.
500
To bring in raw materials and release other substances
Explain the importance of cell transport to our body.
500

Two or more elements form 

What are compounds?