Characteristics of Life/Chemistry of Life
Macromolecules
Enzymes/Nutrient Cycles
Ecology (Population) (Community)
Ecological Succession
100
organisms that are made of only one cell
What are unicellular organisms?
100
simple one monomer sugars
What is monosaccharides (glucose)?
100
this speeds up chemical reactions and they are highly specific
What is an enzyme?
100
a group of individuals of same the species in the same area at the same time
What is a population?
100
the variety of life
What is biodiversity?
200
cells that do not have a nucleus or membrane bound organelles
What is a prokaryote?
200
DNA and RNA are examples of this organic molecule
What is a nucleic acid?
200
lock and key model, and induced fit model are models of this
What are enzymes?
200
maximum population size that environment can hold/support with no degradation of habitat
What is carrying capacity?
200
succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists
What is primary succession?
300
the four elements that make up 96% of living matter
What is hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen?
300
the three major "family groups" of this macromolecule is triglycerides (fats), phospholipids, and steroids
What are lipids?
300
a gas in the atmosphere that comes from volcanic activity, human activity, cellular respiration, and decomposing
What is CO2 (carbon)
300
a symbiotic relationship that is positive for the one organism and negative for the other, ex: dogs & ticks
What is parasitism?
300
non-native animals to an area
What is invasive species?
400
bond where a pair of electrons shared equally by two atoms
What is non-polar covalent bond?
400
one of the functions of this organic molecule is to store genetic information
What is a nucleic acid?
400
when an ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient
What is a limiting nutrient?
400
this is growth under ideal conditions with unlimited recourses
What is exponential growth?
400
insecticide that was sprayed and got into the organisms through the food chain and was stored in tissues and would not degrade
What is DDT?
500
a bond where there is an attraction between a positive H in one H2O molecule to negative O in another H2O molecule
What is a hydrogen bond?
500
one of the functions of this organic molecule is communication between the cells (insulin)
What are proteins?
500
when bacteria turn nitrates into nitrogen gas
What is denitrification?
500
harmless species mimics a harmful species
What is batesian mimicry?
500
protects us from the sun's harmful ultra-violet radiation
What is ozone (O3)?
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