What type of research is intended to expand the fundamental knowledge base of science?
Basic research
What molecules cannot easily cross the plasma membrane without a transport protein?
Na+, K+, Ca+ Amino Acids
When energy is used to move molecules across a plasma membrane, _____ has occured.
active transport
What is also called the Calvin cycle or carbon fixations?
light-independent reactions
What are the basic units of all living organisms?
Cells
The plasma membrane is mainly composed of ...
a double layer of phospholipids with the hydrophobic tails facing each other on the inside and the hydrophilic heads facing the external and internal environments.
What means that two or more aspects of the natural world behave in an interrelated manner?
Correlation
_________ states that all living things are composed of one or more cells and that all cells living today came from preexisting cell.
Cell Theory
Since both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells contain ribosomes, boy type of cells are able to manufacture ...
proteins
_____ is a pumped-up version of endocytosis where large macromolecules, or even entire microscopic organisms, are engulfed and "eaten" by another cell.