Structure & Function
What is a cell?
The source of energy for most ecosystems...
What is the sun?
The molecule that carries genetic information in cells
What is DNA?
Molecules are ORGANIC...
What is when BOTH Carbon & Hydrogen are present?
The base pairs are...
A-T
G- C
The organelle that is responsible for controlling activities of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
In a food chain, the type of organism typically forms the first link by using sunlight to make food...
What is a producer (or plant)?
The different forms of a gene is called...
What are alleles?
This type of carbon-based molecule is a major source of quick energy for living organisms...
What are carbohydrates?
RRREGNTS
LIST ALL LIFE FUNCTIONS
Regulation - Respiration - Reproduction - Excretion - Growth - Nutrition - Transport - Synthesis = Metabolism
The mitochondria are known as the "powerhouses" of the cell. Their primary function is...
What is producing energy (in the form of ATP) for the cell?
The process do plants use to convert sunlight into chemical energy...
FORMULA!
Photosynthesis!
water + carbon dioxide ---> oxygen + glucose
In a Punnett square a capital letter represent...
What is a dominant allele?
These molecules are made up of amino acids and are essential for building and repairing tissues in the body...
What are proteins?
Provide an example how our bodies maintain homeostasis...
Negative or Positive Feedback Mechanism
What is Shivering to bring our body temperature back up, What is a negative feedback mechanism?
Levels of Organization from LEAST to MOST complex...
Organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem....
What are decomposers?
We call an organism that has two identical alleles for a specific trait....
What is homozygous?
These molecules include fats, oils, and waxes, and are important for long-term energy storage and insulating the body.
What are lipids?
Describe the carbon cycle...
What is the process by which carbon moves between the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms?
The function of GUARD cells & STOMATA....
Guard cells function to regulate the opening and closing of tiny pores called stomata on plant leaves, thereby controlling the exchange of gases (like carbon dioxide) needed for photosynthesis and the loss of water vapor through transpiration
In an energy pyramid, what happens to the amount of available energy as you move up from producers to consumers....
What is only about 10% of energy is transferred to each level? 90% is lost as heat.
If a plant has one dominant allele for tall height (T) and one recessive allele for short height (t), the plant's genotype is....
What is Tt?
The MONOMER of Nucleic Acids...
Describe the structure!
Phosphate group - Deoxyribose sugar - Bases
Aerobic vs anaerobic respiration....
Aerobic respiration requires oxygen to produce energy, while anaerobic respiration does not!