Cells
Terminology
Life Category
Chemistry
Water
100
Eukaryotic and prokaryotic.
What are the two main types of cells?
100
Polymers of amino acids that make up proteins
What are polypeptides?
100
Starch
What is the major storage form of glucose in plants?
100
Primary (assemble amino acid sequence), secondary (chain curls into spiral or sheet), tertiary (give protein its shape), quaternary (multiple proteins attached to each other).
What are the four levels of protein structure?
100
Polar
What is the charge of a water molecule?
200
Prokaryotic.
Which type of cell lacks organelles and are bacterial?
200
They "emerge" at higher levels and are due to the arrangement and interaction of parts as complexity increase.
What is emergent properties?
200
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids.
What are four main classes of macromolecules?
200
Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen.
What are the elements that comprise 96% of living matter?
200
When hydrogen bonds hold water molecules together relative to surface tension (measure of how hard it is to break the surface of a liquid).
What is cohesion?
300
Cellulose
What is the most abundant organic compound?
300
The branch of biology that names and classifies species according to a system of broader and broader groups.
What is taxonomy?
300
Bacteria, archaea, eukarya.
What is the three domains of life?
300
Ionic-transfer electrons Covalent-sharing electrons
What is the difference between an ionic bond and a covalent bond?
300
Glycogen
What is the major storage form of glucose in animals?
400
Structural, geometric, enantiomers.
What are the three types of isomers?
400
The study of carbon compounds.
What is organic chemistry?
400
Descent with modification and natural selection.
What two theories did Charles Darwin discover?
400
Hydroxyl, carbonyl, carboxyl, amino, sulfhydryl, phosphate.
What are the six functional groups important to life?
400
Glycosidic linkage
What is the mechanism that holds monosacchradies together?
500
Saturated fat
What is the type of fat that has the maximum number of hydrogen atoms possible?
500
Fats, phospholipids, steroids.
What are three types of lipids?
500
Life is recognized by what living things do. Life possess order, evolutionary adaptation, respond to environment, regulatory response, process energy, grow and develop, reproduce.
What is life? (7 key characteristics)
500
Length, branching, position of double bonds, ring structure.
What are the structures of carbon molecules varying on?
500
Cohesive behavior (stick), moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, versatility as a solvent.
What are the four properties of water that facilitate life?
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