Exchange with the Environment
In what process do cells bring in large particles?
Endocytosis
Photosynthesis allows a plant to produce _________.
Glucose (food)
The cell cycle
The division of the cytoplasm of a cell is ___________.
Cytokinesis
What must organisms be able to obtain in order to survive?
Energy and raw material
Food molecules that are too large to pass easily through the cell membrane can enter the cell by _______________.
Endocytosis
The main pigment used in photosynthesis, gives plants their green color.
Chlorophyll
Chromatids are held together at a region called ___________.
The centromere
How do particles move from areas of lower concentration to areas of higher concentration?
Active Transport
Through what do materials go in and out of an organisms cells?
Cell membrane
Food particles move through a cell membrane without using energy in a process called ______________.
Passive transport
When oxygen breaks down food to release energy, it is called ____________.
Cellular Respiration
Cells need to produce new cells in order to ________.
Replace cells that have died.
Breaking down food for energy without using oxygen is __________.
Fermentation
Human body cells have 23 pairs of ______________.
Homologous chromosomes
Diffusion
Fermentation is muscle cells produces ________.
Lactic Acid
In plant cells, a cell plate forms, and the cell splits in two during __________.
Cytokinesis
The process of cell division in a bacterial cell is called ____________, which means ”splitting into two parts.”
Binary fission
3 stages of the cell cycle
Interphase
Mitosis
The cell splits into two identical cells
Osmosis is important to cells because cells are ____________
filled with fluids that are made of mostly water.
Which of the following is NOT used to make glucose in photosynthesis?
A. H2O
B. O2
C. CO2
D. Light energy
B. O2
When chromosomes are copied, the two copies are called __________.
Chromatids
Chromosomes that have the same sequence of genes and the same structure are known as _____________.
Homologous chromosomes.
What are the 4 phases of mitosis?
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase