Name the Macromolecule
What are the building blocks of proteins?
What are Amino Acids?
What are enzymes and what do they do?
What is Catalysts that lower activation energy to speed up reactions?
John is trying to determine if the Red Robin is an endangered species, so he camps out in the forest for two weeks watching the trees often. What action of the scientific method is John conducting?
What is Observation
Type of cells that encloses DNA in a Nucleus?
What are Eukaryotic Cells
John and Abby are conducting an experiment to see if amount of sleep you receive each night effects your grades. What is the INDEPENDENT variable?
What is amount of sleep
Which macromolecule has the function of storing and transmitting DNA or RNA?
What are Nucleic Acids?
What always happens in a chemical reaction as the reaction proceeds?
Rearrangement of electrons to break or form chemical bonds
The CDC is conducting a study on sleeping medications. Group A gets a sleeping pill, Group B drinks a glucose beverage, and Group C receives no treatment. Which group is the Control Group?
What is Group C
What is to break down excess materials such as lipids and proteins, and wastes
Starch and Cellulose are examples of ______________ found in plants. (A polymer made of a long chain of sugar molecules)
What are Polysaccharides
Starch is a _________ made up of glucose ___________.
What is Polymer, Monomers
Lipid molecules are ______________, meaning they repeal water, which is ___________.
What are Polar, Nonpolar
If John's sister is up for an award with the Institute of Medicine, and he is on the board, what might occur?
What is Bias
What two structures allow plants to support heavy structures such as leaves and flowers?
What are Cell Wall and Vacuole
When Anna walked outside on a cold winter night, her body began to shiver. Anna's body was trying to generate heat so that she could maintain ________________.
What is Homeostasis
Waxes, which are lipids, have what effect on water?
They repel it.
What is Base, more Hydroxide Ions
Adam is testing out how different shoes effect his speed in a 40 yard dash. What are the Independent and Dependent Variables?
What are IV: Shoes DV: Speed
Describe the structure and function of the Cell Membrane
What is lipid bilayer, flexible structure made of phosphate heads (hydrophilic) facing out and fatty acid tails (hydrophobic) facing in to regulate movement of materials into and out of the cell. The main contributor to Homeostasis!
When solute particles move from an area of higher concentration to lower concentration, what cell transport process is being utilized?
What is Diffusion
How do amino acids differ from one another in structure?
What is R group?
What type of bond is water? How is this bond formed?
What are covalent bonds? Sharing electrons
Before submitting my dissertation, I had the Dean of my department review my work. What is this an example of?
What is Peer Review
List all 4 ways that UNICELLULAR organisms maintain homeostasis.
What are: Grow, Respond to Environment, Transform Energy, Reproduce
What are 2 reasons viruses are considered to be nonliving?
Can only reproduce if inside living host
Does not grow
Is not made up of cells
Does not maintain homeostasis
Cannot sense the world around it and respond like living organisms