Macromolecules
These macromolecules, including starch and cellulose, are primarily composed of sugar units.
What are carbohydrates?
In a food web, this type of organism produces energy through photosynthesis.
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
This green pigment found in chloroplasts is crucial for capturing light energy during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This type of cell, which includes plants and animals, has a defined nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
This term refers to the process by which an organism maintains a stable internal environment despite external changes.
What is homeostasis?
This macromolecule is made up of amino acids and is crucial for building and repairing tissues.
What are proteins?
In an ecosystem, this is the maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely without overpopulation.
What is carrying capacity?
Photosynthesis primarily occurs in this part of a cell.
What are chloroplasts?
These simpler cells lack a nucleus and are typically unicellular, such as bacteria.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
This term describes the seasonal movement of animals from one region to another, often for breeding or food availability.
What is migration?
This class of macromolecules is hydrophobic and includes fats, oils, and steroids.
What are lipids?
This term refers to any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism in an ecosystem.
What is a limiting factor?
The overall equation for photosynthesis can be simplified to show that carbon dioxide and water produce glucose and this gas.
What is oxygen?
In eukaryotic cells, this organelle is responsible for energy production through cellular respiration.
What are mitochondria?
How do amino acids become polymers?
What is release of water (dehydration synthesis)
This type of macromolecule stores genetic information and is made up of nucleotides.
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
This pyramid has a 1st trophic level of 10,000. What is the 3rd trophic level's energy?
What is 100 kcals.
This molecule is often referred to as the "energy currency" of the cell, providing energy for various biological processes.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
Which structures is found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
What are ribosomes?
Enzyme ATP synthase is primarily involved in the production of ATP during what process?
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
This process, involving the linking of monomers, forms macromolecules.
What is dehydration synthesis?
The term for a relationship where both predator and prey benefit from the interaction.
What is mutualism?
ATP is composed of these three components.
What is a ribose sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group.
This process, unique to prokaryotic cells, involves asexual reproduction by dividing into two identical cells.
What is binary fission?
This type of bond forms between the carboxyl group of one amino acid and the amino group of another, linking them into a protein.
What is a peptide bond?