Properties of Water
This property causes water molecules to stick to each other due to hydrogen bonding.
What is cohesion?
These macromolecules are made of monosaccharides like glucose.
What are carbohydrates?
This structure controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The organelle where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the chloroplast?
This process produces two genetically identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
This property allows water to absorb and release heat slowly, helping maintain homeostasis.
What is high specific heat?
Long-term energy storage, insulation, and cell membranes are functions of these molecules.
What are lipids?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse” of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
The reactants of photosynthesis are these two substances.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
This type of cell division produces haploid gametes.
What is meiosis?
Because of this property, ice floats, allowing aquatic life to survive under frozen lakes.
What is expansion upon freezing (lower density as a solid)?
Enzymes, hormones, and structural components like hair are examples of this macromolecule.
What are proteins?
Movement of water across a semipermeable membrane is called this.
What is osmosis?
This molecule stores and transfers energy within cells.
What is ATP?
DNA replication is described as this because each new molecule contains one original strand.
What is semi-conservative replication?
Water’s ability to dissolve many substances makes it this type of solution component.
What is a versatile (universal) solvent?
This macromolecule stores genetic information and directs protein synthesis.
What are nucleic acids?
A solution where the concentration of solutes is higher outside the cell is described as this.
What is hypertonic?
The reactants of aerobic cellular respiration.
What are glucose and oxygen?
The process of making mRNA from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
The polarity of water results in this type of intermolecular attraction between molecules.
What is hydrogen bonding?
These biological catalysts lower activation energy to speed up chemical reaction
What are enzymes?
This model describes the structure of the cell membrane.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are interrelated because the products of one are used as these in the other.
What are reactants?
A change in the DNA sequence that may or may not affect phenotype.
What is a mutation?