Macromolecules
This class of macromolecules, which includes sugars and starches, serves as a primary source of short-term energy for living things.
Carbohydrates
Enzymes belong to this major class of biological macromolecules?
Proteins
Which property of water refers to the attraction between water molecules themselves, causing them to stick together.
Cohesion
This term describes the maintenance of a stable internal environment within an organism, such as regulating body temperature.
Homeostasis
This multi-step aerobic process breaks down glucose in the presence of oxygen to release usable chemical energy in the form of ATP.
Cellular Respiration
Making up the primary structure of cell membranes, these hydrophobic macromolecules include fats, oils, and waxes.
Lipids
This is the specific region on an enzyme where the substrate binds.
Active site
Is water able to support small insects on its surface without them sinking?
Yes
This term refers to the alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
Alleles
This type of ecological interaction describes a close, long-term relationship between two different species where both organisms benefit.
Mutualism
These smaller subunits are linked together by peptide bonds to form proteins.
Amino acids
This model of enzyme action accounts for the slight conformational shape change of the protein when a substrate binds?
Included fit model
Water sticking to the sides of plant stems or glass tubes is an example of this property, which helps plants transport water upward?
Adhesion
This Austrian monk used pea plants in the mid-19th century to discover the fundamental laws of inheritance.
Gregor Mendel
Alongside Charles Darwin, this 19th-century British naturalist independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection.
Alfred Russel Wallace
DNA and RNA belong to this group of macromolecules, which store and transmit genetic information.
Nucleic acid
This is the technical term for the specific reactant molecules that bind to an enzyme?
Substrates
The combined effect of cohesion and adhesion allows water to move upward through narrow tubes against gravity.?
Capillary action
This evolutionary mechanism, proposed by Charles Darwin, describes how organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
Natural Selection
This complex carbohydrate provides structural support and rigidity to plant cell walls.
Cellulose
his is the general term for a large molecule built from many smaller, repeating subunits known as monomers.
Polymer
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions by lowering this specific energy barrier?
Activation energy
Substances that do not dissolve well in water, such as oils and fats, are described using this term?
Hydrophobic.
This membrane-bound organelle contains digestive enzymes to break down waste materials, foreign invaders, and worn-out cell parts.
Lysosome
This genetic error occurs when homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to separate properly during meiosis, leading to gametes with an abnormal number of chromosomes.
Nondisjunction