The Big Bang
What is a supernova?
The four biomolecules.
What are proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and lipids?
When water diffuses across a semi-permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place.
What is the chloroplast?
The organelle that stores DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The three subatomic particles.
What are proton, neutron, and electron?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The lipid that provides structure to the cell membrane.
What is cholesterol?
The molecule produced by the Calvin Cycle that is turned into glucose.
What is G3P?
The three types of RNA.
What is mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA?
The elemental dead-end of stellar nucleosynthesis.
What is Iron?
The five elements that make up biomolecules.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Phosphorous?
The family of molecules that live on the surface of a cell and are involved in cell signalling.
What are glycoproteins?
The enzyme that catalyzes carbon fixation.
What is RUBISCO?
The process of adding a tail of adenine bases to mRNA.
What is polyadenylation?
The English translation of the Latin word "nebula".
What is cloud?
The three major types of lipids.
What are phospholipids, triglycerides, and cholesterol?
The active transport mechanism that is used to transport large molecules into and out of a cell.
What is endocytosis / exocytosis?
The the name of the process of splitting a molecule into smaller parts by absorbing sunlight (like a water molecule into hydrogen, oxygen, and electrons).
What is photolysis?
The three steps of translation.
What are initiation, elongation, and termination?
The scientists that discovered the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Who are Penzias and Wilson?
The distinction between cytosol and cytoplasm.
Cytosol = just the jelly-like fluid that organelles are suspended in. Cytoplasm = Cytosol + Organelles.
The hormone produced by the pancreas that raises blood glucose levels by triggering the liver to release stored glucose.
What is glucagon?
The name of the cells that regulate the opening and closing of stomata.
What are guard cells?
The bases that make up the primary start codon.