Molecules
Also known as a proton and a hydrogen ion.
What is H+?
Phospholipid molecules will automatically form a sphere if they are put on water.
What are the hydrophobic tails that get together and make a "no-water" zone?
The number of bonds Nitrogen wants to make.
What are 3?
Glucose, fructose, and galactose.
What are monosaccharides?
The nucleus and mitochondria.
What are the two cell parts a prokaryote does not have?
A carboynl and a hydroxl (COOH).
What is a Carboxyl group? (Carboxyl banana is accepted.)
Energy is needed to move across a membrane.
What is active transport?
The building blocks of proteins can be right or left handed, contain a nitrogen atom, can be recycled, identical except for their R group, and get their "personality" from their R group.
What are amino acids?
The process to join two monosaccharides to make a disaccharide.
What is dehydration synthesis?
What is a plasmid?
An amino acid molecule has this element, which sets it apart from other organic molecules.
What is nitrogen?
The channel that transports water across the plasma membrane.
What is an aquaporin?
These are all protein gadgets.
What are cytoskeleton, enzymes, ATP synthase machine, ion pumps, and flagella?
The reason lactose intolerant people cannot digest the milk sugar (lactose).
What is not making the correct enzyme to break lactose apart?
Helps bacteria to not dry out and to not be eaten by immune system cells.
What is the capsule of sugary slime?
This is the bond that joins two amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
The vitamins that can diffuse through a plasma membrane without using a channel.
What are A, D, E and K?
The number of different size cables in the cytoskeleton.
What are 3?
The reason cows can digest cellulose that forms the walls of plant cells, but most animals cannot.
What is the bacteria that lives in the cow's digestive system?
What is Penicillin (and others ending in "-cillin")?
The attractive force that keeps water molecules together when floating as a liquid.
What is a hydrogen bond?
Moves from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration.
What is when something moves "down its concentration gradient"?
The things that enzymes cut or staple.
What are substrates?
The carbohydrate your body can make.
What is glycogen?
Doctors choose the correct antibiotic.
What is identifying Gram Positive and Gram Negative bacteria?