Chemistry of Life
Cells --> tissue--> organs--> ? --> organism
What is an Organ System
Enzymes will bind or separate these :
What is a substrate?
Osmosis is the movement of this substance across a plasma membrane
What is water?
Viruses require this to reproduce
What is a host cell?
The DNA backbone is made up of this
What is a deoxyribose sugar and phosphate?
Carbohydrates and lipids provide this to an organism
What is energy?
Too hot a temperature can cause an enzyme to do this
What is denature?
The end product of photosynthesis is glucose and -
What is oxygen?
When a virus causes a host cell to burst open
What is lyse?
The base adenine always pairs with this
What is thymine?
The biomolecule responsible for genetic material
What is nucleic acids?
Prokaryotes DO NOT have this
What is a nucleus?
The end product of cellular respiration is water, and this
What is carbon dioxide?
The type of transport that requires energy to cross a membrane
What is active?
The shape of DNA
What is a double helix?
The biomolecule responsible for catalyzing reactions
What is a protein?
Eukaryotes DO have this in their nucleus
What is DNA?
This theory claims that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
The type of transport across a membrane that does NOT require energy?
What is passive?
The word we use when a cell is programmed for self-destruction
What is apoptosis?
The protein that breaks down chitin - the outer skeleton in insects.
What is chitinase?
Eukaryotes are considered ----compared to prokaryotes
What is complex?
Cellular respiration is used to produce this type of energy
What is ATP?
ATP is cellular transport is used when movement is
What is against the gradient?
When cells cannot regulate themselves and begin to divide rapidly, they form a mass of cells called -
What is a tumor (cancer)?