BioChem
Name the building blocks for all four major categories of organic molecules.
What are Carbs, Fats, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids
This level of ecological organization includes all the populations of different species living and interacting in the same area.
What is a community?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces most of the cell’s ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
This molecule carries genetic information and is made up of nucleotides containing the bases A, T, C, and G.
What is DNA?
These tiny marine organisms drift with ocean currents and include both plants and animals.
What is plankton?
This molecule is known as the cell’s main energy currency.
What is ATP?
This interaction occurs when two species compete for the same limited resource, such as food, water, or space.
What is competition?
This type of tissue lines body surfaces and cavities and can function in protection, absorption, and secretion.
What is epithelial tissue?
This process uses DNA as a template to produce an RNA molecule.
What is transcription?
This process occurs when microscopic marine organisms use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into energy-rich compounds.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of biomolecule is made up of amino acids and can act as enzymes in the body.
What are proteins?
This describes the gradual change in the species composition of an ecosystem over time, such as after a forest fire.
What is ecological succession?
This bone is the longest and strongest bone in the human body and is located in the thigh.
What is the femur?
This cellular structure reads mRNA and links amino acids together to produce a protein.
What is the ribosome?
These ecosystems are found in shallow tropical waters and are built primarily by calcium carbonate-producing organisms.
What are coral reefs?
This four-carbon molecule is the final product of glycolysis.
What is pyruvate?
If a population grows rapidly when resources are abundant but eventually levels off due to limited resources, it is showing this type of population growth.
What is logistic growth?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic circulation through the aorta.
What is the left ventricle?
During DNA replication, this enzyme adds new nucleotides to the growing DNA strand.
What is DNA polymerase?
This phenomenon occurs when excess nutrients enter coastal waters, causing algal blooms that can lead to oxygen depletion.
What is eutrophication?
This process uses oxygen to produce large amounts of ATP in the mitochondria.
What is cellular respiration?
In a food chain, only about 10% of the energy at one trophic level is typically transferred to the next level. This is known as this ecological principle.
What is the 10% rule of energy transfer?
This part of the nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord and serves as the main processing center for the body.
What is the central nervous system (CNS)?
This process converts the information contained in mRNA into a specific sequence of amino acids.
What is translation?
These deep-sea ecosystems are supported by organisms that use chemicals such as hydrogen sulfide as an energy source instead of sunlight.
What are hydrothermal vent communities?