Life Scince Finals
Great for the Life Science students that can't memorize all that vocabulary.
Terms
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copy deck
- synthesis phase
- 2nd phase in interphase that DNA replication occurs
- glucose
- sugar that is major source of energy for the body's cell
- replication
- process by which cell makes copy of DNA in nuclei
- Bunsen Burner
- mixes gas and air to heat liquids or solids
- mitosis
- stage of cell cycle during which the nuceus divides into 2 new nucei & 1 copy of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell
- eukaryote
- organism with cells containing nulei
- inference
- telling what you think will happen or what is not well known
- cell plate
- the precursor of a new plant cell wall that forms during cell division and divides a cell into two
- domain
- broadest level of classfication
- smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- cell structures that make facts or lipids
- tongs
- used to hold beakers over burners
- forceps
- an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)
- autotroph
- organism that makes its own food
- Gap 2
- 3rd phase in interphase that cell grows more & prepares to divide
- chromatin
- substance in nucleus, consting of DNA, RNA, that forms chromosomes during cell division
- ethical
- what is moarly right
- genus
- classfication level= # of similar species
- prokaryote
- organism cells that lack nucleus & other cells (one-cell)
- chlorophyll
- green pigment found in chloplasts
- rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
- site of protein synthesis that transport proteins
- centrioles
- celleular structures are composed of 9 triplet microtubules & form asters during mitosis
- heterotroph
- gets food from a different source
- diaphragm
- controls source of light in light microscope
- Gap 1
- 1st phase in interphase that cell makes a lot of proteins & grow fast
- binomial nomenclature
- 2 part name
- chromosomes
- strand of DNA in nucleus that carries genes & functions in transmission of hereditary information
- active transport
- movement of materials through a cell membrane using energy
- passive transport
- movement of materials through a cell membrane without using the cell's energy
- chromotid
- 1 of 2 identical chromosomal strands into which chromosomes split longtudinally prearing for cell division
- centromere
- structure on chromosomes