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Membranes
Structure of membrane, active and passive transport, osmosis, types of cells, cell theory, organelles
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Biology
12th Grade
03/25/2017

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Term
What are the three statements of the cell theory?
Definition

1. All living things are made of cells

2. All cells come from pre-existing cells

3. Cells are the structural and functional units of living things

Term
What organelle is the powerhouse of all cells?
Definition
Mitochrondrion
Term
What organelle contains digestive enzymes and can breakdown food? (the recycling area of the city)
Definition
Lysosomes
Term
What organelle produces proteins? (The butcher shop of the city)
Definition
Ribosomes
Term
What organelle modifies, packages, and ships proteins made by the ER? (The post office in the city)
Definition
Golgi apparatus
Term
What type of cell does not have a nucleus?
Definition
Prokaryotic
Term
What is the basic structure of a cell membrane?
Definition
phospholipid bilayer
Term
What are the differences of active and passive transport
Definition

active requires energy going from low to high

passive doesn't require energy going from high to low

Term
A solution that has a lower solute concentration than a cell in is called _________
Definition
hypotonic
Term

How can a polar molecule make its way across a membrane?

 

Definition
protein channels
Term
the process in which cells take in liquid is called ________
Definition
pinocytosis
Term
What are the two types of cells? Whats the difference?
Definition
Prokaryotic. does not have a nucleus

Eukaryotic. Has nucleus
Term
What are component parts of a membrane?
Definition
Phospholipid bilayer
Term
the nucleolus manufactures...
Definition
ribosomes
Term
the three processes that allows the cell to manufacture proteins are..
Definition
replication allows the nucleus to make exact copies of the DNA
transcription allows the cell to make RNA working copies of its DNA
translation the messenger RNA is used to line up amino acids into a protein molecules
Term
cytoplasm refers to everything between the ________ and the _______
Definition
cell membrane
nuclear envelope
Term
The chloroplast is the site of_______
Definition
photosynthesis
Term
The chloroplast has stacks of disk like structures which are called ______. the membranes connecting them are the _______ membranes.
Definition
Grana
Thylakoid
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