Studying Life
Small Molecules
Biomolecules
Nucleic Acids
Extra
100
The grouping of cells that contain DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, and a cell membrane, but no other membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryote? (or prokaryotic cell)
100
The attractive force that links atoms together to form molecules.
What is a chemical bond?
100
How are polymers broken down to monomers
What is hydrolysis
100
Weak bonds that hold nitrogenous bases together in base pairing
What are hydrogens bonds?
100
Number of protons present in the nucleus
Atomic Number
200
A group of organisms from one species living together in a given environment is referred to as
What is a population?
200
The type of bond shown below is a 
What is a covalent bond?
200
A biomolecule that serves as a fast source of energy?
What are carbohydrates?
200
The five-carbon sugar found in ribonucleic acid (RNA)
What is ribose?
200
an electrostatic attraction between two atoms where one atom transfers an electron to another atom.
What is an Ionic bond
300
These structures are universal to all cells.
What are plasma membrane, ribosomes, cytoplasm, and DNA
300
Molecules that are soluble in water have which type of bond?
What is a polar covalent bond?
300
The biomolecule in which amino acids are the monomers?
What is a protein?
300
A nitrogenous base found in DNA but not in RNA
What is thymine ?
300
A bond between a sugar group and a phosphate group; such bonds form the sugar-phosphate-sugar backbone of DNA and RNA.
What is a Phosphodiester Bond?
400
List the Hierarchy of life from smallest to largest
atom, molecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organisms, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere.
400
Name the essential elements
Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulfur
400
This polysaccharide is found in plants and it's main function is structure and support.
What is Cellulose.
400
A double-ringed nitrogenous base
What is a purine (adenine and guanine) ?
400
Non polar molecules such as hydrocarbons are often described by this word
What is Hydrophobic?
500
List the independent and dependent variables in the following hypothesis. If soil temperatures rise, then plant growth will increase.
What is...Independent-soil temperatures, Dependent-plant growth.
500
Isotopes have the same ____ but different ___.
atomic number (number of protons), mass number (number of protons + neutrons)
500
Chemical denaturizing agents include things like acids and bases. What does physical denaturizing agents include?
Heat, Light, Surface action
500
Beta pleated sheets and alpha helices are two types of this structural level in protein folding
What is secondary structure
500
Nucleic acids are giant biomolecules made of monomers called
What are nucleotides?