Chapter 1
One day, a beekeeper counted how many bees visited a yellow flower, blue flower, and red flower that grow under an oak tree. The flowers receive about 6-8 hours of sunlight each day. What is the independent variable of this study?
what is the color of the flowers
What are the 4 main elements required by most living organisms
What is Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen.
What are the classes of macromolecules?
What are Carbohydrates, Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Lipids
What is the order of electron shell distribution?
What is 2, 8, 8
What part of a phospholipid is hydrophobic?
What is the tail
This is a broader, more generally accepted explanation to an observation
What is Theory
What is the difference between Atomic Mass and Atomic Number?
What is the total number of protons + neutrons and number of protons
What is a hydrocarbon
What is an organic chemical compound only made up of carbon and hydrogen
What is denaturation?
What is the modification of protein structure leading to inactivation
What does cholesterol help make?
What is testosterone
This type of reasoning generates a hypothesis by starting specific, then going more general
What is Induction/Inductive reasoning
What is an example of a trace element?
What is Iron
What are examples of structural polysaccharides?
What is Cellulose (plants) and Chitin (animals)
What is another term for Hydrogen ion?
What is Hydronium
List the 5 steps of the Scientific Method
What is Ask a question, State a hypothesis, Conduct an experiment, Analyze the Results, Make a conclusion
What donates hydrogen ions to a solution?
What are Acids
Which type of lipid has the cis double bond?
What is Unsaturated fat
Which functional groups are nonpolar?
What are methyl and phosphate
What is the purpose of a buffer?
What are substances that minimize changes in concentrations of H+ and OH- in a solution
Name the 5 Themes of Life
What is Organization, Information, Energy and Matter, Interactions, Evolution
Which chemical bond is the strongest?
How are N-terminus and C-terminus defined?
What is the N-terminus is the amino end and C-terminus is the carboxyl end
What is a nucleoside?
What are the differences between Purines and Pyrimidines?