Functional Groups
Membrane
Pathways
Cellular Respiration & Photosynthesis
Mendel Genetics
100
What is the carboxyl group?
100
The phospholipid tail of the cell membrane would be described as ______.
What is hydrophobic?
100
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
100
the goal of cellular respiration
What is to turn glucose into energy?
100
the outward expression of the genes
what is phenotype?
200
This functional group is hydrophobic and is important in gene expression.
what is the Methyl group (-CH3)
200
the movement of ions from high to low concentration (ex: osmosis or diffusion)
What is passive transport?
(NO ENERGY REQUIRED)
200
A catalyst responsible for speeding up a chemical reaction by lowering the EA.
What is an enzyme?
200
the part of photosynthesis that can occur at night
what is the Calvin cycle?
200
the study of biology that involves how different traits are transmitted from one generation to the next.
What is genetics?
300
Alcohols are distinguished by the presence of this functional group
What is the hydroxyl group (-—OH)
300
The ideal solution for a plant cell to be placed in
what is a hypotonic solution?
Isotonic solution for animal cells
300
the region on the enzyme where the substrate binds
What is the active site?
300
readily releasable energy in the bond between the second and third phosphate groups.
what is ATP?
300
phenotypes of both alleles is displayed
what is co-dominance? (blood type is an example)
400
A compound that contains at least one carboxyl functional group and one amino functional group
What is an amino acid?
400
With the sodium-potassium pump how many of each element is pumped in and out
What is three NA+ out, two K+ in.
400
Catabolism is to anabolism as __________ is to __________.
exergonic; endergonic
400
the most abundant protein and a key component of photosynthesis
What is Rubisco?
400
Curly and straight hair, when crossed, is an example of ______, because the resulting individuals have the intermediate character of wavy hair.
what is incomplete dominance?
500
This functional group is associated with the release of energy when removed from the carbon skeleton with water
what is the phosphate group
(Cleaving a phosphate group from ATP releases energy that is used to perform many cellular functions.)
500
the process of releasing things out of cells and the process of taking substances into the cell.
What are endocytosis and exocytosis?
500
Main factors that affect enzyme activity
What are temperature, pH, and concentration?
500
the step that generates the most ATP in animal cells
what is chemiosmosis?
500
If colorblindness is an X-linked trait and a heterozygous female has kids with a colorblind male, what percentage of the sons would we expect to be colorblind?
What is 50%?