Exam #1
Exam #1
Exam #1
Exam #1
Exam #1
100
This type of organism eats plants and other animals
What are consumers?
100
This is a storage carbohydrate found in plant cells
What is a starch?
100
This is a storage carbohydrate found in animal cells
What is glycogen?
100
This is a simple carbohydrate made up of one sugar
What is a monosaccharide?
100
These are the two main components of a plasma membrane's fluid mosaic
What are phospholipids & proteins?
200
This is the major component of cellular membranes
What are phospholipids?
200
What is the characteristic of carbon that makes it so versatile for biological compounds?
A carbon atom has 4 electrons in a shell that holds 8.
200
This type of organism provides food for a typical ecosystem
What are producers?
200
Diffusion is an example of this type of transport
What is passive?
300
There are 20 different amino acids. What makes one amino acid different from another?
What is the different side chainns (R groups) attached to the alpha carbon?
300
These are the 3 Domains of Life
What is Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea?
300
Cells make polymers from monomers. A ______ reaction is used to make polymers while a _______ reaction is used to break polymers into monomers.
What is dehydration & hydrolysis?
300
Which of the following bases is found in DNA but not in RNA?
What is Thymine?
300
A reaction that releases heat is called this
What is an exergonic reaction?
400
What is the significance of the double bonds found in the fatty acid tails of phospholipids in the cellular membrane?
What is the double bonds create kinks in the fatty acids, which helps keep the membrane more fluid?
400
This is a protein's secondary structure
What is it's folding pattern?
400
This is a structural carbohydrate, the most abundant carbohydrate on earth
What is cellulose?
400
This organelle is considered the cell's power company and is where most of the cellular respiration occurs
What is the mitochondria?
400
These steps of glycolysis represent the energy investment phase.
What are steps 1-4?
500
Cellular respiration occurs in 3 steps. In which step is most of the ATP produced?
What is the Oxidative Phosphorylation?
500
If no oxygen is present, fermentation will follow glycolysis. What is the byproduct of fermentation produced in animal cells?
What is lactic acid?
500
This is a diffuse collection of DNA and protein
What is a chromatin?
500
This is a condensed form of DNA & protein
What is a chromosome?
500
This is the spot where sister chromatids are connected
What is the centromere?
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