Themes
Chemistry
Water
Macromolecules
Enzymes
100
Properties that emerge with every level of the biological heirarchy.
What are Emergent Properties?
100
When two atoms share a pair of valence electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
100
The attraction between water molecules which produces a high surface tension. Allows water to move through plants against gravity.
What is cohesion?
100
Molecules that have carbon atoms.
What is an Organic Molecule?
100
Globular Proteins that act as catalysts .
What is an enzyme?
200
The universal genetic language.
What is DNA?
200
The amount of attraction that an atom has for the electrons of a covalent bond.
What is electronegativity?
200
Ionic substances and substances with polar covalent bonds are soluble in water, making water a great _______.
What is a solvent?
200
Molecules that consist of many single macromolecules.
What are polymers?
200
A source of activation energy for metabolic reactions, also known as adenosine triphosphate.
What is ATP?
300
The process that has and continues to transform life on Earth to create diversity.
What is Evolution?
300
The bond in which the electrons are not shared equally because one atom has more electronegativity than the other.
What is a polar covalent bond?
300
Water expands when it freezes, making the ice less dense than the water, causing the ice to ______.
What is float?
300
Organic molecules have similar clusters of atoms called ________ _________.
What are functional groups?
300
When enzymes start to lose their three-dimensional shape and they start to lose their abilty to catalyze reactions they start to become ________.
What is denatured?
400
The lowest level of structure capable of performing all of the activities of life.
What is the cell?
400
A bond in which the atoms have an equal amount of electronegativity and the electrons are shared equally.
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
400
Substances that lack charged poles such as nonpolar covalent substances do not dissolve in water and are called _________ substances.
What is hydrophobic?
400
The bonds between amino acids are called ________ ______.
What is a peptide bond?
400
A substance that doesn't allow the substrate to bind to the active site and inhibits the enzyme.
What is competitive inhibition?
500
The cycling of nutrients and the flow of energy between organisms and their surroundings.
What is Interaction with the Environment?
500
The bond that forms when a hydrogen atom is covalently bonded to one atom and is attracted to another electronegative atom.
What is a hydrogen bond?
500
The water molecule consits of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom. The water molecule is also a v-shaped, _____ ________.
What is a polar molecule?
500
All proteins consist of a chain of covalently bonded _____ ______.
What is an amino acid?
500
A type of inhibitor that binds to the enzyme and induces the enzyme's inactive form.
What is an allosteric inhibitor?
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