Cell Types
Ecology
Metabolism
Organelles
Mixed Bag
Chemistry
Water
Cell function
100

Looking at a cell under a microscope, you note that it is a prokaryote. How do you know?




It is lacking a nucleus

100


Which is a biotic factor within an ocean biome?

Any living factor. 

100

Name a specific lipid

triglyceride

phospholipid

oil

cholesterol

100

Organelle responsible for cellular respiration

mitochondrion
100

What is a molecule that is brought into the cell by receptor mediated endocytosis? 

cholesterol
100

What type of bond is from sharing electrons?

Covalent

100

Property of water at allows bugs to walk on the surface.




surface tension

100

In a hypotonic solution, water will move ____ the cell, causing the cell to ____.




into, burst/lyse

200

Name 2 things that would be in both a eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell

cytoplasm

membrane

ribosome

cell wall

200

A group of organisms of the same species, that live in the same area at the same time is defined as: 




Population

200

What is the purpose of cellular respiration?




Produce ATP

200

Makes proteins

ribosomes

200

Carbon-14 has a half life of 5730 years.  If a sample of human bone is found that contains 25% carbon-14, how old is the bone?

11,460 years

200

What type of bond is from transferring electrons?

Ionic

200

Water has several unique properties such as high boiling point, high surface tension, and low vapor pressure. The type of attraction that bests accounts for these unique properties is -

Hydrogen bond

200


Which cell structure contains the cell’s genetic material and controls many of the cell’s activities?





nucleus

300

What type of cells lack a nucleus?  

Prokarytoic

300

One of the biggest ways that a species evolves is because some organisms with some traits survive and reproduce better than others. This process is known a

natural selection

300

The process of cellular respiration releases the waste products____________and_______________.

CO2

Water

300

Makes and transports lipids

What is the smooth ER?

300

You are interested to see if fertilizer makes plants grow taller.  What is the dependent variable? 

Plant Height

300

Why does water form hydrogen bonds?

Polarity

300


The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane is called





osmosis

300

What is the function of the choloroplast

Photosynthesis

400

True or False?  Bacteria have mitochondria.

False

400

Name an autotrophic organism

any plant or algae

400
Name a carbohydrate

glucose

glycogen

others

400

organelle breaks down old cell parts

What is the lysosome?

400

Give a specific example of mutualism

Example

400

Define cohesion

2 or more of same. 

400

True or False?  Water has a high heat capacity. 

True

400

What type of transport is the sodium potassium pump?

What is active?

500


Students research unicellular, prokaryotic organisms that live in harsh environments such as volcanic hot springs, brine pools, and anaerobic black organic mud.  Which of these groups are the students most likely researching?

Archaebacteria

500

What is the function of autotrophs in the carbon cycle?

Use CO2 to make glucose
500

How would you differentiate a saturate fat from an unsaturated fat? 

Missing hydrogen

Double bonds

500

Packages proteins and lipids 

What is the Golgi apparatus

500

Name the 3 domains

Bacteria

Eukarya

Archaebacteria

500

Building block of proteins

amino acids

500

What is the attraction between two water molecules called?  

Hydrogen Bond

500

What cell type in your body is particularly reliant on the sodium potassium pump? 

Muscle or nerve
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