Characteristics of Life
Something that is dead or has never been alive.
What is abiotic?
Protons, neutrons, and electrons.
What are the subatomic particles?
Name each macromolecule and their monomers.
Carbohydrate - Simple sugars, Lipids - Fatty acids, Proteins - Amino acids, Nucleic Acids - Nucleotides
The property of water that allows it to stick to itself and other things.
What is cohesion and adhesion?
The name of substances on the left side of an equation are ___________, and the right is ____________.
What are reactants and products?
Asexual and sexual are examples of this.
What is Reproduction?
An atom that has a net-charge.
What is an Ion?
This macromolecule is the workhorse of the body.
What are proteins?
6CO2 + 6H2O + Light → C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photosynthesis?
The sum of all chemical reactions in the body.
What is metabolism? (Not just digestion)
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
What are the elements in organic compounds?
Lipids have this property which means repel water.
What is hydrophobic?
a substance that has more H3O+ than OH- is considered this.
What is an acid?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
What is respiration?
The ability to maintain a stable internal environment through feedback loops.
The most important inorganic molecules for living organisms.
What is water?
The two types of Nucleic Acids
What are DNA and RNA?
This is a property that means water has a positive end and a negative end.
What is polar?
Light from the sun.
What is the source of all energy in an ecosystem?
Give three reasons why a virus is considered abiotic.
Answers vary.
Draw an atom, label each subatomic particle.
Answers vary.
All the nucleotides that make up DNA and RNA.
What are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil?
The pH scale is not linear it is _______________.
What is logarithmic?
The type of anaerobic respiration that humans do when lacking oxygen.
What is lactic acid fermentation?