Chemistry
The sharing between two atoms that are unequal is what type of bond?
Polar Covalent Bonds
Animals that feed on both plants and other animals are called?
Omnivores
What form of Learning does the Sensitive Period take place in?
Imprinting
What are the steps to the scientific method?
Observe, hypothesize, predict, experiment, and conclusion.
What are the four complex organic molecules?
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleotides
What makes Isotopes different than regular atoms?
Their number of neutrons
What are some carbon reservoirs?
Living or dead organisms - trees
Fossil Fuels
What letter represents the exponential curve, and what letter represents the logistic curve?
J (exponential) and S (logistic)
"Makes generalizations based on collecting and analyzing a large number of specific observations." is what type of reasoning, inductive or deductive?
Inductive
What Polysaccharide is used by insects and crustaceans to make an exoskeleton?
Chitin
Properties of Water due to Hydrogen Bonding include
High Heat capacity, High heat of vaporization, and can dissolve many molecules.
What is the equation for Respiration?
C6H12O6 + 6 O2 --> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy
What are the three symbiotic relationships and what are the relationships like?
Parasitism - One benefits while the other is harmed
Commensalism - One benefits while the other is not benefitting or being harmed.
Mutualism - Both organisms benefit from each other.
What is a Law and a Theory?
Law: Description of a pattern in nature. The HOW
Theory: Explanation as to why a pattern (law) exists. What is the mechanism behind it? Describe hidden processes and predict phenomena. The WHY
Fats are also known as?
Triglycerides
Organic molecules always contain
Carbon and Hydrogen
What other gases play a role in the Greenhouse effect?
Methane, Hydrofluorocarbons, Nitrous Oxide
When a female chooses a mate based on appearance or mating ritual, that is called?
Sexual Selection
What are all the characteristics of life?
Organized, Acquire Materials and Energy, Reproduce, Capacity to adapt Evolutionary, Grow and Develop, Maintain Homeostasis, Respond to Stimuli
What are the two polymers of Nucleotides?
DNA and RNA
What is adhesion and cohesion
Adhesion: Water adheres to a surface or object (water droplets on a window after a rain)
Cohesion: Water comes together in a cohesive unit (beads coming together to form a stream of water)
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
Energy + 6 CO2 + 6 H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6 O2
((20-100)/120)x 100, what type of population rate does this equation represent?
Decay Rate
What are the four strengths of science?
Anti-Authoritarian, Self-Correcting, Publicly Understandable, and Predictive.
What are steroids made of and what affects a steroid to make them different?
Four carbon fused rings and functional groups.
What atoms can bind to hydrogen to form hydrogen bonds
N, O, and F
What are some influences on the phosphorus cycle
Human influence and phosphate rocks
What is Nature vs Nurture
Nature - Genetic Influence
Nurture - Environmental Influence
What do Scientists Do?
They Describe, explain, and communicate discoveries.
Describe is a Trans Fat?
Unhealthy, heart disease risk, increases storage life, donuts and junk food
What is it called when a bug can sit on water without going into it?
Surface Tension
What happens when there is to much phosphate in the water?
Eutrophication - alga blooms and kills fish
A proximate question is?
What about the particular organism brings about this behavior? “How” does this happen?
All mammals have mammary glands and hair. Humans are mammals. Therefore, humans have mammary glands and hair. This is an example of what type of reasoning?
Deductive
What is a Saturated and Unsaturated Fat?
Saturated: No double bonds, Solid at room temperature, maximum number of hydrogens, animal origin
Unsaturated: Double bonded, liquid at room temp, plant origin
Acidic and Basic Solutions have what?
Acidic: High H+ concentrations
Basic: Low H+ concentrations
What organisms take up inorganic carbon?
Plants and alga
What is Biotic Potential and its influences?
The highest possible per capita rate of
increase for a population.
• Many factors can influence biotic potential.
• Reproductive potential of current population
• Availability of food
• Presence and absence of disease
• Presence or absence of predators
What is a null hypothesis?
No difference expected between control and experimental groups
What are the protein structures
Primary Structure: linear sequence of amino acids
Secondary Structure: Alpha Helix and Beta Sheet
Tertiary Structure: final three-dimensional shape
Quaternary Structure: multiple poly peptide chains