Unit 3 Cells Vocab Quiz

A very large organic molecule composed of many smaller molecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids

A simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers

A single celled organism

Made up of more than one cell.

specialized structure that performs important cellular functions within a eukaryotic cell

the substance that is dissolved by the solvent

A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances

A mixture that forms when one substance dissolves another.

A measurement of how much solute exists within a certain volume of solvent

process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment

series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells

A disease in which some body cells grow and divide uncontrollably, damaging the parts of the body around them.

threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

A long molecule consisting of many similar or identical monomers linked together.

Replicated forms of a chromosome joined together by the centromere and eventually separated

cell that does not have a nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles.

Larger, complex, with nucleus, membrane bound organelles, DNA tightly wrapped around histone proteins in chromosomes, cellulose in plant cell walls.

cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes

G1, S, and G2 phase of cell cycle DNA is replicated in S phase

division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells