Characteristics of Life
Scientific Method
Biochemistry
Cells
Enzymes
100
Keeping an internal balance (sugar levels, etc)
What is homeostasis?
100
Science begins with this.
What is an observation?
100
This molecule has a hydrophilic region made of a phosphate group and a hydrophobic region which is made of lipids.
What is the cell membrane?
100
This cell type contains 70s ribosomes, smaller than another cell type
What is a prokaryote cell?
100
Enzymes work on these moleules
What is substrate molecules?
200
Digestion and Photosynthesis have this in common; they are both activities that contribute to this characteristic of life
What is metabolism?
200
The factor you are testing in an experiment
What is the independent variable?
200
The first is short term energy storage and includes glucose. The second is long term energy storage and also helps animals be more motile.
What are carbohydrates and lipids?
200
In animal cells, these organelles carry their own DNA
What is mitochondria?
200
They work by lowering this energy
What is activation energy?
300
Viruses aren't considered living because they cannot do this independently.
What is reproduction?
300
This two word term provides us with something to compare our results to when experimenting.
What is a control group?
300
The resulting shape is because of the order and sequence of the amino acids that it is made up of.
What is a protein?
300
Two organelles found only in plant cells and two organelle found only in animals
What is cell wall, large central vacuole or chloroplasts and what are centrioles or lysosomes?
300
they belong to this category of macromolecules
What are proteins?
400
Organisms do this when they encounter a stimuli.
What is responsiveness?
400
This factor, when graphed, is always placed on the Y axis
What is the dependent variable?
400
Three fatty acid chains and a glycerol head makes up this biomolecule
What is a triglyceride?
400
Looking at an electron micrograph the specimen you see has naked DNA, pili, ribosomes and a cell membrane? This organelle containing DNA is also visible
What is a plasmid?
400
These three factors effect the rate of enzyme activity
What is temperature, CO2 levels, light intensity or the availability of water?
500
Substances that cross the cell membrane help us to maintain this.
What is homeostasis?
500
These are factors that need to be kept constant.
What are controlled variables?
500
Hydrolysis does this type of reaction by adding water; Condensation does this type of reaction by taking water out
What is catabolic and anabolic?
500
This organelle puts the finishing touches on proteins; packaging them in vesicles for export
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
500
The digestion of milk sugar, otherwise known as this requires this enzyme
What is lactose and lactase?
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