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The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
100
Cells without compartmentalization.
What are prokaryotes?
100
Term for a molecule with both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions.
What is amphipathic?
100
Can be accomplished through simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, or osmosis?.
What is passive transport?
100
Phenomena disproven by Redi and Pasteur's experiments.
What is spontaneous generation?
200
The process by which cells become specialized.
What is differentiation?
200
Cells with 80S ribosomes.
What is eukaryotes.
200
Molecule which alters membrane fluidity and permeability to some solutes in mammalian membranes.
What is cholesterol?
200
Transport against the concentration gradient that requires energy.
What is active transport?
200
The theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
300
Properties that emerge from interaction of components.
What are emergent properties?
300
Cells which divide by binary fission.
What are prokaryotes?
300
Proteins spanning the entire membrane.
What are integral proteins?
300
A solution with a higher concentration of solute than the cell.
What is a hypertonic solution?
300
Scientists who designed an divestigation simulating early atmospheric conditions.
Who are Miller and Urey?
400
Cells that have not yet become specialized.
What are stem cells?
400
Cells with a cell wall, chloroplasts, and mitochondria.
What are plant cells?
400
Method used to falsify the Davson-Danielli model of membrane structure.
What is freeze-fracture analysis?
400
Solution used in medical procedures to prevent osmosis into or out of tissues and organs.
What is an isotonic solution?
400
Endosymbiotic theory describes the development of these organelles.
What are chloroplasts and mitochondria?
500
A disease which uses stem cells as a treatment.
What is Stargardt's Disease? OR What is Type 1 Diabetes? OR What is Leukemia?
500
Microscopes with a much higher resolution than light microscopes.
What is an electron microscope?
500
The modern model of membrane bilayers.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
500
Active transport mechanism that uses the membrane to bring materials into the cell.
What is endocytosis?
500
Properties of mitochondria which suggest they were once independent prokaryotes.
What are 70S ribosomes, independent DNA, and independent replication?