Intro to AP Bio
the value that occurs most frequently in a data set
What is mode
The elements that make up carbohydrates
What is Hydrogen, Carbon, and Oxygen
The reason the mitochondrial membrane has folds and curves
What is to increase surface area?
The study of energy transformations
What is thermodynamics?
prefix for the factor 10-3
What is milli
s in a statistical analysis and probability equation
What is sample standard deviation?
One product that is always present in a dehydration reaction
What is water
The equation for surface area of a sphere
What is 4 x pi x r2 ?
The substance that is used to accelerate chemical reactions - Not used up by the reaction
What is a catalyst?
The prefix for the factor 106
What is mega
A type of graph which shows greater increases over time
What is exponential growth
The monomers of proteins
What are amino acids
The types of molecules that can passively diffuse across the cell membrane
What are small non-polar molecules?
The measurement of disorder or randomness in a system
What is entropy?
When a molecule binds on an enzyme's active site to prevent its function
What is competitive inhibition?
i in a solute potential potential equation
What is ionization constant
The directionality of a polynucleotide
What is 5' to 3'
A benefit of compartmentalization
What is the isolation of different chemical reactions without them interfering with each other?
The components of ATP
What is adenine, ribose, and three phosphate groups?
All organisms are made up of cells, all cells came from preexisting cells, and cells are the most basic unit of life
What is Cell Theory?
the measure of the variance in a data set's mean, and its equation
What is standard deviation and s = the square root of Σ(xi - sample mean)2 divided by the sample size - one
The three types of lipids
What are fats, phospholipids, and steroids?
The location of cholesterol in a cell and its functional purpose
What is embedded between phospholipids and to regulate the permeability of the cell membrane / prevent membrane from freezing ?
A substrate binds to one active site of an enzyme with multiple active sites, which then allows more substrate to bind to the enzyme
What is Cooperativity?
The person who made this Jeopardy
Who is Jordan?