Random Biology
A possible answer to a scientific question; it must be falsifiable.
What is a hypothesis?
These simple molecules form the basis of all proteins
What are amino acids?
Type of fatty acid with double bonds
What are unsaturated fatty acid
A biomolecule that serves as a fast source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.
What is osmosis?
The type of cells that contain DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, and a cell membrane, but no other membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryote? (or prokaryotic cell)
What is activation energy?
Organelle where proteins and lipids are processed and then exported
What is the golgi apparatus
The largest organism on Earth found in Malheur National Park
What is the honey fungus/mushroom?
Organelle where cellular respiration occurs
What is the Mitochondria
I am the property of water defined by the amount of energy needed to increase 1 gr. of water by 1 degree Celcius.
What is specific heat.
movement of molecules across cell membranes without the need for energy input
What is passive transport?
Water molecules have attractive forces to one another and are held together by these types of weaker bonds
What are hydrogen bonds?
A protein made of several polypeptide chains AND an inorganic component
What is a conjugated protein
Ion that glucose piggybacks on to cross a cellular membrane
What is Sodium
Binding site on an enzyme where a non-competitive inhibitor can attach
What is an allosteric site?
Theory that suggests that eukaryotic cells originated from a prokaryote engulfing another prokaryote.
What is the Endosymbiotic Theory?
The bone in a human thigh.
What is the femur?
Type of chemical reaction involving H2O used to create polypeptides
What is condensation
Two (of three) organelles that are only present in plant cells and not animal cells
What are the chloroplasts, large central vacuole, cell wall?
These are the products of cellular respiration
What are water, carbon dioxide, and ATP?
The following is the overall reaction of what process?6CO2 + 6H2O —> C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photosynthesis?
A type of protein used for facilitated diffusion
What are Channel or carrier protein
Molecule OTHER than fatty acids in triglycerides
What is Glycerol
Theory that Pasteur disproved using swan neck flask, broth/media, and heat
What is Spontaneous generation