Cell Processes Vocabulary Quiz! Trivia

The process by which plants and many other producers use light energy to produce a simple sugar from carbon dioxide and water and give off oxygen.

The process by which vesicles release their contents outside the cell.

The process by which a cell takes in a substance by surrounding it with the cell membrane.

The total of all chemical reactions in an organism.

Movement of substances through a cell membrane without the use of cellular energy.

This occurs when molecules of one substance are spread evenly throughout another substance.

A type of passive transport that occurs when water diffuses through a cell membrane.

A combination of substances in which the individual substances do not change or combine chemically but instead retain their own individual properties.

The process by which oxygen lacking cells and some one-celled organisms released small amounts of energy from glucose molecules and produce wastes such as alcohol, carbon dioxide, and lactic acid.

A compound made from elements other than carbon and whose can atoms can only be made by one structure.

The process by which producers and consumers released stored energy from food molecules.

A type of protein that regulates nearly all chemical reactions in a cell.

Compounds that always contain hydrogen and carbon.

A type of passive transport in cells in which molecules move from areas higher concentration to areas of lower concentration.

Energy requiring process in which transport protein binds with particles and move them through a cell membrane.