Cell Makeup
The most basic structural unit of an animal.
What is a cell?
Also known as a cell wall or plasma membrane. Responsible for holding a cell together.
What is a cell membrane?
A reaction that occurs in the body in which chemicals are broken down and used by the body.
What is metabolism?
This type of cell division involves the division of somatic cells, which aid in the body's growth and repair and involves five stages.
What is Mitosis?
These are also known as fats and combine hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon into a form that does not dissolve well in water.
What are lipids?
Referred to as the "brain" of the cell and is located in the center of a cell.
What is the nucleus?
What is Anabolism?
What are carbohydrates?
The fluid part of the cell that allows the cell's internal structure to move.
What is the cytoplasm?
What is edema?
This molecule contains a double-helix structure formed by nitrogen base pairs of adenine (A) with thymine (T) and guanine (G) with cytosine (C) and is the carrier of genetic material.
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
Part of the cell that makes energy and often referred to as the "powerhouse of the cell".
What is the mitochondria?
What is Catabolism?
This nucleic acid is present in all living cells and acts as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins.
What is RNA (ribonucleic acid)?
A collection of folded membranes lined with ribosomes that are attached to the nucleus
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
Process in which a substance moves from an area of lower concentration to an area of higher concentration
What is active transport?