Other Cell Terms Assignment 3

Question 1

Anabolism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Biology

Answer 2

The study of the life and life processes.

Question 3

Catabolism

Answer 3

Membrane network of “roads” and “channels” that wind through cytoplasm.

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, and 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 the 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.