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Flashcards by gabrielle.bentle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by gabrielle.bentle
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Centrioles | Meaning: structures that function in cell reproduction |
| Cilia | Meaning: hairlike extensions on the surface of those cells capable of movement |
| Endoplasmic Reticulum | Meaning: membrane network of "roads" and "channels" that wind through cytoplasm |
| Flagella | Meaning: a sperm cells "tail" |
| Golgi Bodies | Meaning: sacs that make and transport carbohydrate compounds |
| Lysosomes | Meaning: the cell's digestive system |
| Mitochondria | Meaning: "power plants" that burn food in the presence of oxygen to make cell energy |
| Ribosomes | Meaning: "protein factories" that make proteins |
| Anabolism | Meaning: the building metabolic phase; grows, maintains, and repairs body structures. |
| Biology | Meaning: the study of life and life processes |
| Catabolism | Meaning: the breaking-down metabolic phase; producing energy from food and oxygen. |
| Chromosomes | Meaning: short, tightly-coiled rods that contains genes |
| CYT/O | Meaning: Cells |
| Cytoplasm | Meaning: substance between plasma membrane and nucleus of all cells |
| DNA | Meaning: deoxribonucleic acid; chemical genes are made of |
| Genes | Meaning: regions of DNA organized into the "body's blueprint" |
| Kary/O | Meaning: nucleus |
| Karyoplasm | Meaning: substance of nucleus |
| Karyotype | Meaning: picture of chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell |
| Metabolism | Meaning: chemical process by which cells obtain and use energy |
| Nucleus | Meaning: sphreiod body within a cell that dictates protein production; controls transport, metabolism, growth, hereditary |
| Organelles | Meaning: structures within cytoplasm |
| -Plasm | Meaning: formative, formed material |
| Plasma Membrane | Meaning: the outside boundary of the cell |
| RNA | Meaning: Ribonucleic acid; needed for production of protein within the cells |
| Tissue Fluid | Meaning: salt water solution that bathes every cell in the body |
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