Ch 2 : Cells And Heredity

Question 1

The process by which cells break down simple food molecules to release the energy they contain

Answer 1

Repiration

Question 2

An organism that makes its own food

Answer 2

Autotroph

Question 3

An organism that cannot make its own food

Answer 3

Heterotrophs

Question 4

A green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants algae and some bacteria

Answer 4

Chlorophyll

Question 5

The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo

Answer 5

Cell cycle

Question 6

The stage of the cell cycle during which the cells nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell

Answer 6

Mitosis

Question 7

The final stage of the cell cycle in which the cells cytoplasm divides distributing the organelles into each of the two new cells

Answer 7

Cytokinesis

Question 8

A change in a gene or chromosome

Answer 8

Mutation

Question 9

A mass of abnormal cells that develops when cancerous cells divide and grow uncontrollably

Answer 9

Tumor

Question 10

The process by which plants and some other organisms capture the energy in sunlight and use it to make food

Answer 10

Photosynthessis