Term for when water sticks to other polar molecules
What is adhesion?
The type of reaction that is needed to link two monomers together
What is a condensation reaction?
Name for the building blocks of proteins which we must get with food, since we cannot make these.
What are essential amino acids?
The first step in both aerobic and anaerobic cell respiration
What is glycolysis?
The color of light AND the wavelength (with unit) that is absorbed least by chlorophyll
What is green light at 500nm wavelength?
The building blocks of DNA and RNA which form a chain
What are nucleotides?
The carbohydrate used as energy storage in animals
What is glycogen?
Bond type between 2 amino acids
What are peptide bonds?
The 2 products of anaerobic cell respiration in humans
What is lactate and (2) ATP?
The name of prokaryotes that can do photosynthesis
What are cyanobacteria?
The term for water's resistance to an object moving through it
What is viscosity?
Fatty acids that have at least one double bond between carbon atoms
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
HL: lowest level of protein structure that R groups are involved in
What is tertiary structure?
HL: The role of oxygen in aerobic cell respiration
What is the final electron acceptor in the ETC?
Method of separating pigments in a plant
What is chromatography?
HL Two part Q: the name of the base type that T and C belong to, AND the scientist that discovered the number of A is the same as the number of T
What are pyrimidines? Who was Chargaff?
The name of the tissue composed filled triglycerides. Used for energy storage, insulation, protection,...
What is adipose tissue?
Name for the change of shape of a protein when heated too much
What is denaturation?
The apparatus used to measure cell respiration
What is a respirometer?
Experiments conducted in the field to see how future rates of photosynthesis may change due to combustion of fossil fuels
What are FACE experiments? (Free air carbon dioxide enrichment experiments)
HL: Hypothesis of where the earth's water originated, by evidence from deuterium to normal hydrogen ratios
What are meteorites? (not comets).
Group name of lipids that have 4 rings. (some are hormones and another is cholesterol)
What are steriods?
This is lowered in a reaction by enzymes - and the reason why reactions can happen at lower temperatures
What is activation energy?
HL: What we call addition of H, as in when NAD+ turns into NADH
What is reduction?
The model that replaced the lock and key model for enzyme action
What is the induced fit model?