Cell Life with Max Axiom

Sections 1, 2 & 3

1.  What is the difference between a prokaryotic cell and a eukaryotic cell? What are examples of each?

Prokaryotic: DNA floats freely inside of prokaryotic cells, example = bacteria

Eukaryotic: DNA is contained inside the nucleus, eukaryotic cells have organelles that do specific jobs, example = plants & animals

2.  Glucose is changed into energy in which organelle?

mitochondria

3.  Where is DNA located in the cell?

Inside of the nucleus in eukaryotic cells        

4.  What do chloroplasts use to make glucose?

Carbon Dioxide and light

5.  What is this process called (from question#4)?

Photosynthesis

6. How do cells reproduce?

By dividing. Cell division is going from one cell to two. It is a six step process:

Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis

7. What do scientists call the process that occurs in the nucleus where DNA is copied and divided?

Mitosis

8. What can cell division do in plants and animals?

Repair injury, help babies grow into adults

9. What are six different types of cells in the human body?

brain, blood, skin, fat, bone, smooth muscle

10. What are bone marrow transplants used to treat?

Cancers like leukemia and lymphoma

Food from the Sun with Max Axiom

Sections 1, 2 & 3

1. What is the process called where plants turn the energy from the sun into food?

        Photosynthesis

2. What are the three ingredients needed for photosynthesis to occur?

Sunlight, carbon dioxide molecules, water

3. Each molecule of water contains what types of atoms and how many of each?

2 Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom -- H2O

4. What is the definition of carbon dioxide?

colorless, odorless gas that people and animals breathe out

5. What are chloroplasts and what do they do?

Tiny structures inside the cell that break water molecules apart and allow photosynthesis to happen.

6. What is the green substance in chloroplasts called? What does it do?

chlorophyll -- captures energy from sunlight

7. When hydrogen atoms mix with parts of the carbon dioxide what’s formed?

Sugar (glucose)

8. What do plants use sugar for?

To create other types of food like starches, proteins, and fats

9. Plants release oxygen in the air through their stomata or pores to keep who alive and healthy?

People and animals

10. What are the only organisms (living things) on earth that can take energy from the sun and turn it into food?

        Plants