Quiz 3: Cells and Tissues Flashcards
The organelle responsible for making the majority of ATP in a cell is the ________.
Mitochondrion
The passive process that involves the movement of water through aquaporins is ________.
Osmosis
What is required for filtration to occur?
Pressure gradient
What is required for osmosis to occur?
Aquaporins
The nucleotides of DNA join in a complementary way in which adenine pairs with ________ while cytosine pairs with ________.
Thymine; guanine
By what endocytosis process do some white blood cells engulf bacteria?
Phagocytosis
What separates the intracellular fluid from the extracellular fluid?
Plasma membrane
The phospholipid tails are ________, which make the plasma membrane impermeable to water.
Hydrophobic
The membrane connections that prevent the leaking of fluid between cells are called ________.
Tight junctions
A solution that contains fewer solutes than the cell is ________ to the cell.
Hypotonic
