Exam 4: The Cells: the Raw Materials and Building Blocks

________ are bacteria that live within or on us and are normally harmless.

This is the movement of water from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher concentration through a membrane ________.

Bacterial infections are treated with ________, chemicals that can kill the prokaryotic bacteria without harming eukaryotic cells.

This organelle consists of tiny flattened sacs that help process and package chemicals in the cell ________.

Which of these is not a function of the cell membrane?

________ are tiny building blocks of all matter which combine to form molecules.

Viruses can stay dormant in the body and become ________ once again, later in life.

Discuss the characteristics of carrier mediated transport.

The most important molecules for making the cell membrane selectively permeable are ________.

Compare and contrast active and passive transport.

Malaria is caused by which of the following types of infections?

________ is the process in which water travels through a selectively permeable membrane to equalize concentrations of a solute.

These are called the "power plants" of the cell ________.

Proteins prevent ions from crossing cell membranes.

Chromatin is found in the nucleus.

_______________ is a process in which water will travel across a semipermeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration.

The brief portion of the cell cycle that is devoted to actual cell division is the ________ phase.

____________ is the process in which a substance travels from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.

What section of the cell cycle is actually devoted to cell division?

The four phases of mitosis are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.