| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are characteristics of living things? | Complex and organized, acquire and use energy, respond to stimuli, reproduce, capacity to evolve, grow, have cell(s) |
| What are the three parts of the cell theory? | All living things are composed of cells. Cells are the basic unit and structure of living things. All cells are produced from other cells. |
| What are the stages in the cell cycle? | Interphase, Mitosis (Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase), Cytokinesis |
| What is the goal of the cell cycle? | Two identical cells with the same DNA. |
| Where, when, and why is the DNA replication? | In the nucleus, Interphase, So each cell can have the same DNA at the end of the cell cycle. |
| Is the Interphase a resting face? Is it good or bad? | Bad name- not resting, DNA is being copied and the cell is growing to mature size. |
| What is the purpose of cell division? | Reproduction, growth, replacing damaged cells |
| Who does the cell division for reproduction? What process is involved? | Unicellular- Mitosis for eukaryotic and Binary fission for prokaryotic. |
| Who does the cell division for growth? What process is involved? | Multi-cellular: Mitosis |
| What is the nucleus for? What happens here? | Control center of cell that contains the DNA, cell cycle takes place inside the nucleus. |
| What is the process that reproduces cells? | Cell division |
| What is binary fission? What are some examples of organisms? | Prokaryotic (bacteria) simple form of division ends in two identical cells- only one strand of DNA needed to be copied- very quick (asexual reproduction only). |
| What is meiosis? What are some examples of organisms? | Eukaryotic organisms- cell division for sex cells (egg and sperm) ends in four cells with half of the DNA. (ex: humans, dogs, mammals, etc) |
| What is mitosis? What are some examples of organisms? | Eukaryotic organisms- unicellular is used to reproduce and multi-cellular is used to grow. |
| What is an organelle? What are some examples? | Little "organ" within a cell that has a job to make the cell function as a whole. (ex: nucleus, mitochondria, lysosome, vacuole, etc). |
| What is prokaryotic? What are some examples? | No true nucleus, lacks many organelles (asexual reproduction). (ex: bacteria such as E. Coli or Strep). |
| What is eukaryote? What are some examples? | True nucleus and has many of the organelles (sexual reproduction). (ex: human, tarantula, trout, paramecium, amoeba,) |
| What is asexual reproduction? What are some examples? | One parent can reproduce by itself. (ex: paramecium, E. Coli) |
| What is sexual reproduction? What are some examples? | Egg and sperm join to create a new organism. (ex: human, trout |
| What is unicellular? | Made of one cell. |
| What is multi-cellular? | Made of more than one cell. |
