Exam 4: Cellular Metabolism and Reproduction: Mitosis and Meiosis

The term ____________________ describes the total chemical changes that occur in a cell.​

Which term refers to a fertilized egg?​

Down syndrome is a congenital defect commonly caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.​

​The net gain from glycolysis is ____ ATP molecule(s) and ____ NADH₂ molecules.

Matching ​Match the description with the corresponding term. a.​metaphase b.​cytokinesis c.​catabolism d.​telophase e.​meiosis f.​anabolism g.​metabolism h.​prophase i.​mitosis j.anaphase -​final stage of mitosis

Unwound strands of chromosomes visible as threads in the nucleoplasm are called ____.​

The formation of ____ is the final step in the transformation of light energy into the chemical energy of a biologically usable form.​

​What is the net gain of ATP molecules produced by glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport system for each glucose molecule?

The formation of the female egg is called oogenesis.​

Biochemical respiration is the oxygen-requiring, or ____, process of ATP production.​

Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick determined the three-dimensional structure of ____________________​

​Most of the ATP produced during biochemical respiration is produced in the ____ system.

We measure the energy contained in food as ____________________. ​

The most common substance decomposed aerobically in cells to produce ATP is ____.​

Matching ​Match the description with the corresponding term. a.​metaphase b.​cytokinesis c.​catabolism d.​telophase e.​meiosis f.​anabolism g.​metabolism h.​prophase i.​mitosis j.anaphase -​cellular reproduction that forms two identical nuclei​

The special kind of cellular reproduction that occurs only in gametes is known as mitosis.​

Radioactive materials and X-rays can cause ____________________ in DNA by disrupting exact copying of the nucleotide sequence.​

Glucose is a simple ____.​

Matching ​Match the description with the corresponding term. a.​metaphase b.​cytokinesis c.​catabolism d.​telophase e.​meiosis f.​anabolism g.​metabolism h.​prophase i.​mitosis j.anaphase -​chromosomes shorten and thicken

The indentation of the cell membrane during cytokinesis is called a ____.​