BIOLOGY
This molecule carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome.
What is mRNA?
This subatomic particle has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
The monomers that make up proteins.
What are amino acids?
MCAT: This physics quantity equals force times distance.
What is work?
The process by which cells divide to produce two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
The measure of the amount of solute dissolved in a given volume of solution.
What is concentration?
The type of muscle found in the walls of internal organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This bond links amino acids together in a protein chain.
What is a peptide bond?
DAT: This type of tooth is used for tearing food.
What is a canine?
This type of RNA brings amino acids to the ribosome during protein synthesis.
What is tRNA?
A reaction in which electrons are transferred between molecules.
What is a redox reaction?
This structure connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
The protein structure level defined by alpha helices and beta sheets.
What is secondary structure?
MCAT: A learned association between two stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
The phase of the cell cycle in which DNA replication occurs.
What is S phase?
The strongest intermolecular force involving bonding to N, O, or F.
What is hydrogen bonding?
The part of the brain responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
An enzyme that unwinds DNA during replication.
What is helicase?
DAT: The hardest substance in the human body.
What is enamel?
This theory explains how populations evolve through differential survival and reproduction.
What is natural selection?
The temperature at which vapor pressure equals atmospheric pressure.
What is boiling point?
The vessel that carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
This pathway breaks down glucose to produce ATP.
What is glycolysis?
This gas law states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional when temperature is held constant.
What is Boyle’s law?