What's in a name?
What is -ose?
It tells you that the molecule is a sugar.
What is poly-?
It means many.
Name for the monomer of proteins.
What are amino acids?
Why is an energy pyramid in the shape of a pyramid?
As the trophic levels go up, the population sizes and energy decrease.
This is the process where an individual organism builds up toxins in its body over time.
What is troph?
It means to eat or consume.
In several molecule names, it means two.
Di-
What are peptides (2-50 monomers) or polypeptides (50+ monomers)?
It is the macromolecule with several roles in the body such as growth, repair, transport, structure, speeding up reactions, etc.
The process that takes place to make ATP when cellular respiration is not possible or enough to keep up with the need for energy?
Anaerobic respiration/fermentation
What is -lysis?
It means to break something up.
What is -hydrate?
The presence of water or Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Name for the monomer of carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
These molecules speed up reactions by lowering the activation energy of the reactions.
What are enzymes?
This refers to reactions where the inputs/reactants of one are the outputs/products of the other.
What are complementary reactions?
What is -synthesis?
It means to build something or put things together.
This is a name for any sugar monomer.
What is a saccharide?
Name of the monomers of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
The three instinctual bodily responses during the mammalian dive reflex.
What are bradycardia, apnea, and peripheral vasoconstriction?
The maximum population size of a species an environment can sustainably support over time.
What is carrying capacity?
What is -ase?
It tells you that the molecule is an enzyme.
It means the molecule is an alcohol.
What is -ol?
These are the components of lipids.
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
or
What are triglycerides?
Name of the reaction that binds monomers together by removing water.
What is dehydration synthesis/condensation?
The process via which an ecosystem is created over time in a place that did not have any soil at first.
What is primary succession?