Unit 1 Chemistry of Life
What property of water causes a blanket of molecules to form at the surface of a pond?
What is Surface tension
What is the main function of a lysosome?
What is digestion/waste removal/apoptosis
What are the two overall products of photosynthesis?
What are glucose and oxygen
What step of respiration must all living things undergo? Where does it occur?
How old are Ms. I and Mr. Winstead?
31
In which organic molecules are NH2 and COOH found?
what are amino acids/protiens
What are two things that prokaryotes lack?
What are a nucleus and membrane bound organelles
How do enzymes affect reactions?
What is they speed up reactions by lowering activation energy
What is the site on an enzyme where something can bind to change the shape of the enzyme?
What is the allosteric site
What was the first concert Ms. I ever went to?
Jonas Brothers
What type of reaction involves building of molecules through the removal of water?
What is dehydration synthesis/condensation reaction
What type of transport involves moving molecules from an area of high to low concentration using a transport protein?
what is facilitated diffusion
In cellular respiration, is the glucose reduced or oxidized?
what is oxidized
What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
5 C sugar, nitrogen base, phosphate group
How tall is Ms. I?
5'4" AVERAGE HEIGHT
What level of proteins involve a 3D structure and disulfide bonds?
What is tertiary
List the two types of proteins that can be found in the cell membrane
What are integral and peripheral
What drives the electron transport chain in both photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
what is a H+ gradient
What type of fat contains at least one double bond in its carbon structure?
what is an unsaturated fat
What is Mr. Winstead's favorite pokemon?
Ampharados
List the 3 types of lipids that have been specifically discussed?
(Hint: not saturated or unsaturated)
what are triglycerides, phospholipids, steroids
-what type of solution is it in?
-Which direction will water move?
Hypertonic
water will leave the cell
What is the name of the enzyme in plants that "fixes" carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during the calvin cycle?
what is rubisco
What are the two types inhibition enzymes can do?
what are competitive and non competitive (allosteric)
Mr. Winstead can name all of this in order. (There are two possible answers)