Properties of H20
The fundamental property of water, this characteristic gives water all of its other properties.
What is polarity?
This process/term refers to keeping all internal factors within a certain range.
What is homeostasis?
Name the 4 BOM groups.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins?
The organelle in all cells, eukaryotes and prokaryotes, that helps to control what can enter and exit a cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Sunflowers are known to orient their flowers to follow the sun throughout the course of the day. Name this process.
What is heliotropism?
The two components of the stickiness of water, these properties allow water to bond to itself as well as other polar molecules.
What are cohesion and adhesion.
Reproduction where one individual passes down both copies of DNA.
What is asexual reproduction?
DNA is an acronym that stands for the answer to this question.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
More plentiful in animal cells as compared to plant cells, these organelles are responsible for breaking down waste products and disposing of them.
What are lysosomes?
List the organelles unique to plant (2) and animal (1) cells.
What are the cell wall, chloroplasts, and centriole?
Describe the importance of water as the universal solvent.
What is as the solution that breaks down organic molecules to be recycled into new building blocks (answers may vary slightly).
There are two general classifications for how living things obtain energy. Name them.
What are heterotrophs and autotrophs?
Carbohydrates are the storage molecules of energy in living things, but plants and animals store their excess energy in different forms. Name them.
What are starch (plants) and glycogen (animals)?
The designation given to the types of cells that are compartmentalized so that different processes occur in specific locations.
What are eukaryotes?
The Base Pair Rule describes the answer to this question.
What is nucleotide bonding patterns (A & T, C & G)?
We know that water has the ability to climb up the stems of flowers and trees to reach leaves at the top. Name the special pore that allows water to travel vertically.
What is the xylem (phloem also accepted)?
Long term change in a population based in genetics is often called this.
What is evolution?
Provide the names of the monomers for each BOM group.
What are monosaccharides, amino acids, fatty acids, and nucleic acids?
Name 2 organelles that contribute to protein synthesis (the production of proteins).
What are (answers vary):
Nucleus
Ribosomes
Smooth/Rough ER
Golgi Body/Apparatus
List the 3 parts of the Cell Theory.
1) All living things are made of cells
2) Cells are the most basic unit of organization in living things
3) All cells come from other cells
When watching the movie Life's Rocky Start, we learned that life began in the 'primordial soup' of early ponds or around undersea vents. Name the experiment that seemed to prove life could start in ponds with a little spark of electricity.
What is the Miller-Urey Experiment?
List all 8 characteristics of life.
2) Obtain & Use Energy
3) Shared Genetic Code (DNA)
4) Grow & Develop
5) Reproduce
6) Respond to the Environment
7) Change Over Time
8) Maintain Stable Internal Conditions
This polymer of lipids doubles (no pun intended) as the main component of an organelle found in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
What is a phospholipid (phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane)?
Eukaryotes are distinguished from prokaryotes largely due to their nuclei. Name the analogous region in prokaryotes (think bacteria) that house the genetic material.
What is the genophore (also accept plasmids)?
The rare ability in sexually reproducing organisms to produce offspring without a mate/partner.
What is parthenogenesis?