Unit 1: Evolution and Speciation
This molecule is similar to DNA, but instead of containing genetic information it helps make proteins.
What is RNA?
The most basic subunit of a biological molecule.
What is a monomer?
This type of organism has cells that have a rigid cell wall and chloroplasts.
What are plant cells?
A type of cell that does not have a nucleus.
What is prokaryotic?
This process uses carbon dioxide, water, and light to produce oxygen and glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
The process by which organisms accumulate differences from their ancestors over time.
What is evolution?
This is the name of the most basic unit of a protein.
What is an amino acid?
This cell structure is responsible for making proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This word refers to how eukaryotic cells are divided into many different spaces with many different functions.
What is compartmentalization?
Cellular respiration provides organisms with this molecule, which then acts as the energy for important molecular functions.
What is ATP?
This is a structure or behavior that may look similar but evolved in two unrelated species.
What is an analogous structure?
This is a reaction where large molecules are made / synthesized from small molecules.
What is anabolism?
This type of protein uses ATP to move particles across the membrane.
What is a pump protein?
This organelle is thought to have been a separate organism at one point, but was consumed by ancient cells and incorporated as an organelle in a process called endosymbiosis.
A type of protein that speeds up reactions by binding to molecules and decreasing the activation energy.
What is an enzyme?
Process where organisms accumulate difference over time from a common ancestor, eventually resulting in new species.
What is divergent evolution?
This word is used to describe when a molecule has hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts.
What is amphipathic?
A thin, double-layered structure that forms the cell membrane.
What is the phospholipid bilayer?
These 3 cell structures are common to all cells.
A type of cellular respiration that produces glucose and lactase.
What is anaerobic respiration?
An evolutionary process where a single ancestral species diversifies quickly.
What is adaptive radiation?
A reaction that uses water to synthesize larger molecules.
A type of passive transport across the membrane that is caused by the movement of water.
What is osmosis?
An organelles that was made by the infolding of the cell membrane and packages proteins and lipids made by the endoplasmic reticulum.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This part of the chloroplast converts light into usable energy.
What is the thylakoid?