topic 4 ecology
A test to see if there is an association between 2 species
Wha is the chi square test?
The group of plants that reproduce with spores, and have vessels to transport water
What are filicinophytes?
the synthesis of this compound disproved vitalism
What is urea?
The equipment used to measure cell respiration in germinating seeds or small animals
What is a respirometer?
A measurement used to see if one is obese - mass(kg)/(height (m))2
What is BMI?
An organism that ingests dead organic matter and digests it in its body?
What is a detritivore?
The group of animals with bilateral symmetry, and only one opening
What are platyhelminthes?
the polysaccharide which is used as an energy storage in animals
What is glycogen?
The products of Anaerobic cell respiration of glucose in muscles
What are lactate/lactic acid and ATP?
Lactose is made of these two monosaccharides
What are glucose and galactose?
formed when organic matter is not fully decomposed in waterlogged, anaerobic, acidic conditions
What is peat?
The general name for people who study classification
What are taxonomists?
The protein in the retina that is used for vision.
What is rhodopsin?
The ratio between how far a pigment travelled to how far the solvent travelled in thin layer chromatography
What is the Rf value?
A word to describe all of the proteins produced by a cell, tissue or an organism
What is a proteome?
The relative size of the wavelengths of radiation that get absorbed and reflected back to earth by greenhouse gasses.
What are long wavelengths/ longer wave radiation?
The group directly below class in the classification heirarchy
What is order?
What it is called when an enzyme is put into a bead or on a sheet, so it can be used again and again
What is immobilization /what are immobilized enzymes?
The color of visible light with the shortest wavelength?
What is violet?
Populations of different species living together
What is a community?
A cellular process in aquatic autotrophs that increase the pH of the water
What is photosynthesis?
The domain which includes strange prokaryotes that can live in extreme environments
What is Domain Archeae or What are archeans
The type of fatty acid that has a double bond, and the H's are on the same sides of the molecule
What is a cis unsaturated fatty acid?
the term for the splitting of water into protons, electrons and oxygen in the first step of photosynthesis
What is photolysis?
The unit of energy used in energy pyramids
What is kJm-2yr-1