Gen Chemistry
A solution with a pH greater than 7 is called this.
What is basic/alkaline?
The percentage of energy retained from one trophic level to the next highest.
What is 10%?
A type of bond formed between 2 identical atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This scientist is responsible for helping Watson and Crick elucidate the structure of DNA via X-ray crystallography.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The scientist who came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A reaction in which the product is a solid that leaves the solution.
What is a precipitation reaction?
The phase of meiosis during which crossing over occurs.
What is prophase I?
These are compounds or functional groups containing a basic nitrogen atom with a lone pair.
What are amines?
This type of macromolecule has a glycerol and three attached fatty acids.
What is a lipid?
The scientist known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A separation of a partial positive and negative charges in a molecule; it creates a dipole moment.
What is polarity?
The two main phases of the central dogma of molecular biology.
What are transcription and translation?
This is a species that reacts with a nucleophile by accepting an electron pair.
What is an electrophile?
When a virus is stained with radioactive phosphorus, it appears on this macromolecule in its host.
What is DNA?
Sir Alexander Fleming discovered this drug, cited as the first true antibiotic, in 1928.
What is penicillin?
In a titration, this is the solution being analyzed to determine its concentration.
What is the analyte?
In the brain, it's the space between neurons where neurotransmitters are released.
What is the synaptic cleft?
This is the property of a molecule in which its mirror image cannot be superimposed on to itself.
What is chirality?
These are organic compounds that serve as the monomeric units of proteins. Just 20 of them are used in humans.
What are amino acids?
The scientist that developed the pure culture technique in 1881 and also formulated the postulates used to determine disease causing agents in 1890.
Who is Robert Koch?
The bond angles in a tetrahedral molecule such as CH3 are equal to this.
What are 109.5 degrees?
The phase of early animal development in which the blastula becomes layered.
What is gastrulation?
The IUPAC name for CH3CH2CH2OH is this.
What is propanol?
This process is what makes the majority of ATP in an animal cell using H+ ions.
What is oxidative phosphorylation/aerobic respiration?
This international scientific research project was first started in 1990 to determine the nucleotide sequence of all human genes. It was finally completed in 2003 by Dr. Craig Venter and his team.
What is the Human Genome Project?