Characteristics of Living Things:
What is Homeostasis?
Maintaining a stable environment inside a cell or organism even when outside conditions are changing.
What is an exergonic reaction?
A reaction that releases energy.
Green plants convert light energy into ____ energy
Chemical.
What does Organic mean?
Living.
What is the number of protons in an atom called?
Atomic number.
What are the two types of reproduction?
What is the difference between Potential energy and Kinetic energy.
Potential energy is the energy that matter possesses as a result of its location or structure and Kinetic energy is the energy of motion.
What is a Heterotroph?
A consumer that feeds on plants and/or animals, or decompose organic material.
What are the four groups of organic compounds found in living things?
1)Carbs, 2)Lipids, 3)Nucleic Acids, 4)Proteins.
what is an Isotope?
An atom with the same number of protons and a different number of neutrons.
What is a community?
All populations living together in a defined area.
What is Chemical Energy?
Potential energy available for release in a chemical reaction.
What is NADPH in the light reactions?
An electron carrier.
What is a Macromolecule?
A giant molecule made from thousands of smaller molecules by polymerization.
Where are electrons found in an atom?
Electron shells.
Name all levels of Organization of living things starting at "Cells".
1) Cell, 2)Tissue, 3)organ, 4)organ system, 5)Organism, 6)Population, 7)Community, 8)Ecosystem, 9)Biosphere.
What is a Competitive Inhibitor?
Bind to the active site and blocks substrates from entering.
What is a photon?
A fixed quantity of light energy.
What are the two types of lipids?
Saturated and unsaturated lipids.
What is the attraction (pull) for shared electrons called?
What does "GRRSNERT" stand for?
1)Growth, 2)Respiration, 3)Reproduction, 4)Synthesis, 5)Nutrition, 6)Excretion, 7)REgulation, 8)Transport.
What is an Irreversible Inhibitor?
When the inhibitor binds to the enzyme with covalent bonds(Strong).
What is the inner layer of vascular tissue that carries water and minerals?
Xylem
Proteins contain what four elements?
1)Carbon, 2)Hydrogen, 3)Oxygen, 4)Nitrogen.
What must happen to heat for hydrogen bonds to be broken?
Heat must be absorbed.