Experiments & Graphs
This variable is what the scientist changes on purpose in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
The macromolecule that gives us quick energy.
What are carbohydrates?
This organelle is the site of cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondria?
This molecule is considered the main energy currency of the cell.
What is ATP?
This 3-word phrase is used by Dr. Elsa and other biochemists to convey why some substances are hydrophobic and why others are hydrophilic.
What is "Like Dissolves Like"?
In an experiment testing fertilizer on plant growth, this group receives no fertilizer and is used for comparison.
What is a control group?
These subatomic particles do not have mass and are most involved in forming chemical bonds.
What are electrons?
These cells lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What are prokaryotes?
This metabolic process releases energy from glucose in the presence of oxygen.
What is cellular respiration?
Named out of sequence, this protein begins the light reactions by supplying excited electrons through the splitting of water, despite being discovered after its counterpart.
What is photosystem II?
This type of graph is best used to show how a variable changes over multiple data points, such as plant growth over several weeks.
What is a line graph?
This type of bond involves the equal sharing of electrons between atoms.
What is a non-polar covalent bond?
This type of transport moves small, nonpolar molecules across the membrane without energy.
What is simple diffusion?
The final electron acceptor in cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
Seen in hydrogen bonds, this type of interaction occurs between different molecules.
What are intermolecular bonds?
This type of graph is used to determine whether there is a relationship between two quantitative variables, such as hours studied and test score, and typically measures one data point per group.
What is a scatter plot?
This macromolecule is made of amino acid monomers and is responsible for enzymes, structure, and transport.
What are proteins?
When a cell is placed in this type of solution, water will move outside of the cell and may cause the cell to shrivel up.
What is a hypertonic solution?
A process where energy is used to attach a 3rd phosphate group to the 2nd phosphate group of adenosine di-phosphate
What is the conversion of ADP to ATP?
Supported by evidence such as double membranes, circular DNA, and independent replication, this theory describes the evolutionary origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts.
What is the Endosymbiotic Theory?
This scientist helped prove germ theory by mapping cholera cases and linking the disease to a contaminated water pump.
Who is John Snow?
The third component of a nucleic acid monomer, aside from the phosphate group and nitrogenous base.
What is a ribose sugar?
This organelle produces lipids for the cell.
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
The full balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis.
What is 6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
This term was adopted into scientific language around the 1870s to describe the central, kernel-like part of the cell that houses its genetic information.
What is -karyo?