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The entire set of genetic information in a cell or an organism is referred as...
What is genome
Which kingdom comprises mostly unicellular eukaryotes
What is Protista
A shortage of phosphorus in the soil would make it especially difficult for a plant to manufacture ______
What is DNA
The source of phosphate for a phosphorylation cascade is ______
What is protein kinase
Which functional group is associated with a release of energy when removed from a..
What is phosphate
Which statement about the energy radiated from the ears of a rabbit cooling itself is accurate?
What is the original source of energy was the sun
Evaluate the following statement: oxygen is not a greenhouse gas; therefore, gasses containing oxygen, such as carbon dioxide, are not greenhouse gasses either
What is false. Compounds can have emergent properties that are very different from the elements that form them
You would expect a cell with an extensive Golgi apparatus to _____
What is secrete a lot of protein
Which determines the sign of the delta G for a reaction?
What is free the energy of the reactants and the free energy of the products
The source of phosphate for a phosphorylation cascade is ________
What is ATP
The ability of water molecules to form hydrogen bonds with other water molecules and water's ability to dissolve substances that have charges or partial charges are...
What is Both caused by water's partial charge
Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down starch. Why can't the same enzyme break down cellulose
What is the monosaccharide monomers in cellulose are bonded together differently than in starch
Which type of cell will have the most mitochondria
What is Muscle cells in the legs of a marathon runner
Each ATP molecule contains about 1% of the amount of chemical energy available from the complete oxidation of a single glucose molecule. Cellular respiration produces about 32 ATP from one glucose molecule. What happens to the rest of the energy in glucose?
What is it is converted to heat
In preparing the pyruvate to enter the citric acid cycle, which step occurs?
What is Pyruvate is oxidized and decarboxylated, and the removed electrons are used to reduce an NAD+ to an NADH
The fatty acid tails of a phospholipid are ______ because they _____
What is hydrophobic ... have no charges to which water molecules can adhere
Which correctly compares the extracellular matrix (ECM) of animal cells to cell walls of plant cells
What is both the ECM and the plant cell wall are composed of varying mixtures of proteins and carbohydrates
A single plant cell is placed in an isotonic solution. salt is then added to the solution. Which would occur fairly quickly as a result of that addition?
What is water would leave the cell by osmosis, causing the volume of the cytoplasm to decrese
Which best describes the electron transport chain?
What is electrons are passed from one carrier to another, releasing a little energy at each step
Which correctly states the relationship between anabolic and catabolic pathways
What is anabolic pathways synthesize more complex organic molecules using the energy derived from catabolic pathways
A plot of reaction rate against temperature for an enzyme indicates little activity at 100 C and 45o C with peak activity at 35o C. the most reasonable explanation for the low velocity at 10o C is that ______
What is there is too little activation energy available
Testosterone and estrogen are lipid-soluble signal molecules that cross the plasma membrane by simple diffusion. If these molecules can enter all cells, why do only specific cells respond to their presence?
What is nontarget cells lack the intracellular receptors that, when activated by the signal molecule, can interact with genes in the cell's nucleus
Sports physiologists at an Olympic training center wanted to monitor athletes to determine at what point their muscles were functioning anaerobically. They could have done this by checking for a buildup of which compound?
What is lactate
Your intestine is lined with individual cells. No fluid leaks between these cells from the gut into your body. Why?
What is The intestinal cells are bound together by tight junctions
Which structural arrangement of the components in biological membranes is most consistent with membrane's property of selective permeability?
What is proteins embedded in two layers of phospholipids