Cell Structure
A flexible structure that protects and controls what goes in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The simplest form of sugar, used as a source of energy.
What is glucose?
This is the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
A body cell other than a reproductive cell.
What is a somatic cell?
A type of asexual reproduction in which a cell divides into two parts.
What is binary fission?
The molecule that contains the genetic materials of a cell.
What is DNA?
The process in which cells break down molecules without the use of oxygen.
What is fermentation?
The diffusion of water through a membrane that allows specific substances to pass through.
What is osmosis?
One of the two strands of a duplicated chromosome.
What is a chromatid?
A type of asexual reproduction that involves the outgrowth of a small part of the parent, which develops into a new organism.
What is budding?
A segment of DNA located on the chromosome that, among other things, controls specific traits.
What is a gene?
Plant cells use three items in the process to make food.
What is carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water?
The type of cell division that produces reproductive cells.
What is meiosis?
When a male and female gamete join together it forms what kind of organism?
What is a zygote?
The jelly like substance found inside the cell that contains the organelles.
What is cytoplasm?
These three items are PRODUCED during the process of cellular respiration in eukaryotes.
What is energy, water, and carbon dioxide?
When the concentration of water inside the cell matches that outside the cell what do we have?
What is equilibrium?
The type of cell division that produces somatic cells.
What is mitosis?
Reproduction that does NOT include both a male and female gamete is called....
What is asexual reproduction?
The 'powerhouse' of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The entire process of fermentation takes place in this part of the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
Certain molecules are 'helped' across the cell membrane by special proteins in a process called...
What is facilitated diffusion?
A mature male or female reproductive cell.
What is a gamete?
Two other ways, besides binary fission and budding, that asexual reproduction can occur are....
What are spores and vegetative reproduction?