Unit: Cell Processes

Vocabulary

1. Diffusion the movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an
area of low concentration

2. Osmosis the diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane

3. Semipermeable allows some substances to pass through and not others

4. DNA genetic material that determines inherited traits

5. Nucleotide a subunit of DNA, made of a base, a sugar, and a phosphate

6. Replication process of copying DNA

7. Mitosis cell division that forms two new identical nuclei

8. Cytokinesis the division of cytoplasm of a cell

9. Active Transport movement of substances across the cell membrane that
requires energy

10. Endocytosis process by which the cell surrounds, encloses and takes in large
particles

11. Exocytosis process by which a cell merges a vesicle with the membrane to
release a large particle