Biology Basics
The study of life and living things.
What is biology?
Non-living parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
A single unit that can be repeated/linked into a longer chain.
This organelle releases energy for the cell (powerhouse).
What is a mitochondrion?
This is the main pigment that absorbs light energy that is needed for photosynthesis.
A well-tested, general explanation for how something in nature works.
What is a theory?
The functional role of a species in its community.
Niche
A water molecule exhibits this when its partially negative oxygen atom is attracted to the partially positive hydrogen atom of another water molecule.
What is hydrogen bonding?
This type of cell typically lacks membrane bound organelles.
What are prokaryotic cells?
This is the source that replenishes electrons in the light-dependent reactions.
What is H2O (water)?
Our understanding of reality through which we filter our experiences.
Biological, geological, and chemical processes that recycle elements through the biosphere
These macromolecules are double-stranded and store genetic information.
This organelle modifies, sorts, and packages substances.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This the location where the light-dependent reactions take place.
What is the thylakoid membrane?
The law that states that life can only come from other life.
What is the law of biogenesis?
Animals that can propel themselves through the water.
What are nekton?
The attraction between molecules of different substances.
What is adhesion?
This type of cell transport doesn't require energy, but requires the help of carrier proteins or protein channels.
What is facilitated diffusion?
These are the pores that are found in leaves that allow substances to go in and out.
What are stomata?
A principle that states that the simplest answer is usually the best.
What is Occam's razor?
An orchid living in a tree is an example of this type of biological relationship.
What is commensalism?
These macromolecules are comprised of a glycerol molecule attached to three fatty acid chains.
What are triglycerides?
This type of solution will cause an animal cell that is put into it to swell up and burst.
What is a hypotonic solution?
This is the process of utilizing energy from the diffusion of H+ through a protein channel to form ATP.
What is chemiosmosis?