Unit 1: Ecology
The arrows in a food web represent this...
What is energy?
These two molecules provide energy.
What are carbohydrates and lipids?
These organisms are examples of prokaryotes.
What are bacteria?
These structures make up the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids?
G1, S, and G2 make up this larger phase.
Two things that increase atmospheric carbon and one that decreases it.
What are respiration, burning fossil fuels, etc. and photosynthesis?
This term refers to the repeating building blocks of larger molecules.
What is a monomer?
The protein coat that protects the nucleic acid of a virus.
What is a capsid?
This molecule is needed to move substances from low to high concentration.
What is ATP?
A child falls down and scrapes their knee. This process replaces damaged cells.
If a secondary consumer has 130 kilocalories of energy, the producers would have this much energy.
What is 13,000 kilocalories?
An enzyme will bind with this...
What is a substrate?
Three things all cells have in common.
What are cell membrane, genetic material, ribosomes, etc.
What is facilitated diffusion?
Tumor cells that metastasize to other tissue are known by this term.
What are malignant?
An elephant walks through tall grass stirring up insects. Birds walk behind and eat the insects. This relationship is known as...
What is commensalism?
These are the three elements shared by all four biomolecules.
HIV can remain dormant for years before showing signs of infection. This viral cycle is know as...
What is the lysogenic cycle.
What is endocytosis?
These are the three parts of a DNA nucleotide. (be specific)
What are phosphate group, deoxyribose sugar, nitrogen base?
This term refers to an increase in the concentration of a chemical through trophic levels. E.g. Pesticide runoff almost wiped out bald eagles in the 1940s.
What is biomagnification or bioaccumulation?
Two ways that nitrogen is pulled from the atmosphere.
What are bacteria and lightning?
After receiving a vaccine, your body creates antibodies. These antibodies stop viruses from infecting cells by...
What is attaching to the glycoprotein of the virus?
This term describes when a plant cell loses water in a hypertonic solution.
What is plasmolysis.
A species of fish has 32 chromosomes during G1. How many chromosomes would a cell have after the M phase?
What is 32?