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Any substance that CANNOT be broken down into a simpler substance is called what?
ELEMENT
The smallest unit of an ELEMENT.
ATOM
2 or more elements combined chemically are called what ?
COMPOUND
The smallest unit of a compound is called what?
MOLECULES
Large organic molecules used for many things and build body structures like muscles?
PROTEINS
What are the smaller molecules that make up proteins?
AMINO ACIDS
A type of protein that speeds up a chemical reaction is?
ENZYMES
Compounds that contain carbon are ?
Organic compounds
Compounds that DONOT contain carbon are ?
INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Energy enriched organic compounds are ?
CARBOHYDRATES
Carbohydrates that are used for cell parts and found in the cell walls as cellulose are ? Also found in cell membranes
SUGARS AND STARCHES
What contains more energy than carbohyrates?
LIPIDS like fats, oils and waxes
What contains the instructions that cells need to carry out functions?
NUCLEIC ACIDS
What's the genetic material that carries information ABOUT an organism, that is passed down from parent to offspring. It also contains information that directs all of the cell's functions?
DNA
What is RNA?
It plays an important role in the production of proteins
_____ is essential for most chemical reations within cells to take place?
WATER
What is the gatekeeper of the cell?
cell membrane
When a membrane lets some substances pass through and refuses others, it is called what?
SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE
The process where molecules move from an area of HIGHER CONSENTRATION to an area of lower consentration.
DIFFUSION
What causes diffusion?
collison of molecules cause them to move away from each other
What is the diffusion of water molecules called?
OSMOSIS
In osmosis, what kind of membrane are the water molecules crossing?
selectively permeable membrane
What is "using energy to move materials through a cell membrane called"?
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
What is THE MOVEMENT OF MATERIAL through the cell membrane WITHOUT USING ENERGY
PASSIVE TRANSPORTATION (osmosis, diffusion)
Picking up protein molecules outside the cell and bringing them in is a FORM OF ______ TRANSPORTATION?
ACTIVE
When a ceell membrane surrounds or engulfs a particle, pinches off and forms a vacuole within the cell, it is called?
TRANSPORTATION BY ENGULFING
Why are cells small?
in order for materials to effectively carried into and out of cells
When a cell captures the energy in sunlight and uses it to make food, the process is called _____?
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PHOTOSYNTHESIS uses energy in a 2 stage process to convert what?
Carbon dioxide and water INTO oxygen and sugars
What is a colored chemical compound that absorbs light?
PIGMENT
What is the main ingredient found in CHLOROPLASTS?
CHOLORPHYLL
What is the small openingon the underneath side of the leaves called?
SOMATA
kNOW THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS EQUATIONS IN YOUR NOTES
under III. part of outline
The process where cells withdraw energy from glucose is ?
RESPIRATION
SEE THE EQUATION FOR RESPIRATION IN YOUR NOTES
under IV. part of outline
What are the 2 stages of respiration?
1st- in the CYTOPLASM, GLUCOSE MOLECULES broken into smaller molecules
2nd- In the MITOCHONDRIA, the small molecules are further broken down and ENERGY IS RELEASED
PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND _____ are opposite processes.
Respiration
What do we call the energy releasing process that does not require OXYGEN?
FERMENTATION
In LACTIC-ACID fermentation what happens?
a process used by cells, when they use the oxygen they need faster than it can be replaced
What happens in Alcohol Fermentation?
Yeast and other single-celled organism ferment and produce Alcohol
What is the first stage of the cell cycle?
INTERPHASE
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE INTERPHASE STAGE?
growth-the cell DOUBLES IN SIZE
During the interphase stage what happens to DNA?
After growing to materity, the cell MAKES A COPY OF DNA CALLED REPLICATION
Once DNA has been replicated, what happens next?
preparation for CELL DIVISION begins
What happens in the second stage of cell cycle?
The cell's nucleus divides
A doubled rod of condensed chromatin is ?
CHROMOSOME
Each identical ROD, OR STRAND, of the chromosome is named _____?
CHROMATID
What happens in the third and final stage of the cell cycle>
The cytoplasm DIVIDES distributing the organelles into the two new DAUGHTER CELLS.
What does the length of cell cycle depend on?
the type of organism and cell
DNA replication insures what????
that each Daughter Cell has all of the genetic information needed to carry out activites
What is the structure of the DNA-twisted ladder is called/
Double Helix
The replication process begins when?
the two sides of the DNA unwind and separate
Be sure to understand the :::::
illustrations at the end of the outline! passive transportation and then the cell cycle