Other Cell Terms

Question 1

Anabolism

Answer 1

The building metabolic phase; grows, maintains, and repairs body structures

Question 2

Biology

Answer 2

The study of life and life processes

Question 3

Catabolism

Answer 3

The breaking-down metabolic-phase; producing energy from food and oxygen

Question 4

Chromosomes

Answer 4

Short, tightly coiled rods that contain genes

Question 5

CYT/O-

Answer 5

A cell

Question 6

Cytoplasm

Answer 6

a substance between the plasma membrane and nucleus of all cells

Question 7

DNA

Answer 7

Deoxyribonucleic acid, the chemical genes are made of

Question 8

Genes

Answer 8

Regions of DNA organized into the body’s “blueprint”

Question 9

KARY/O-

Answer 9

The nucleus

Question 10

Karyoplasm

Answer 10

The substance of the nucleus

Question 11

Karyotype

Answer 11

A picture of chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell

Question 12

Metabolism

Answer 12

The chemical processes by which cells obtain and use energy

Question 13

Nucleus

Answer 13

The spheroid body within a cell that dictates protein production; controls transport, metabolism, growth, heredity

Question 14

Organelles

Answer 14

Structures within Cytoplasm

Question 15

-PLASM

Answer 15

Formative, formed material

Question 16

Plasma membrane

Answer 16

The outside boundary of a cell

Question 17

RNA

Answer 17

Ribonucleic acid, needed for production of protein within cells

Question 18

Tissue fluid

Answer 18

A saltwater solution that bathes every cell in the body