Which of the following functions does
active transport perform in a cell?
A. packaging proteins for export from the cell
B. distributing enzymes throughout the cytoplasm
C. moving substances against a concentration
gradient
D. equalizing the concentration of water inside
and outside the cell of organisms?
What is C. moving substances against a concentration gradient?
100
The amount of energy required to raise one gram of water one degree Celsius (an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joule).
What is a calorie?
100
1 meter = 3.28 ft = 39.27 in - True or False
What is true?
100
The relationship between the energy and wavelength of light.
What is E=hf?
100
A semiconductor diode that converts applied voltage to light and is used in lamps and digital displays.
What is a Light Emitting Diode (LED)?
200
A relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
What is mutualism?
200
This is the electron configuration of neon.
What is 1s^2 2s^2 2p^6?
200
The Golden Gate Bridge is this type of bridge and is painted this color.
What is an orange suspension bridge?
200
A measure of the amount of electric potential energy stored.
What is capacitance?
200
This element is added to iron to make steel.
What is carbon?
300
Within an individual mouse, four different mutations occurred in different genes, located on separate chromosomes and in different cells, as shown in the table. This mutation could be passed on to the mouse’s offspring.
What is blue eyes?
300
A positively charged particle consisting of two protons and two neutrons, emitted in radioactive decay or nuclear fission; the nucleus of a helium atom.
What is an alpha particle?
300
Which of the 3 phases - solid, liquid or gas - is glass
What is Liquid?- Glass has no crystalline structure and is effectively a supercooled liquid
300
This is the dimension of a joule, the MKS (SI) unit for measuring energy.
What is kg*m^2*s^-2?
300
This is the location of the fastest passenger train in the world.
What is France?
400
A class of plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.
What is auxin?
400
A chemical reaction between two compounds where the positive ion of one compound is exchanged with the positive ion of another compound.
What is a double replacement reaction?
400
What shape is the head of an Allen key?
What is hexagonal?
400
A roller coaster car is at the top of the first hill just about to drop. This type of energy is most closely associated with this situation.
What is gravitational potential energy?
400
This country is named after a material.
What is China?
500
The process in cell metabolism by which respiratory enzymes in the mitochondria synthesize ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate during the oxidation of NADH by molecular oxygen.
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
500
The principal commercial method of producing ammonia, by direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst, often iron.
What is the Haber Process?
500
This gas is released into the bloodstream when a diver suffers from the bends or decompression sickness; a) Oxygen b) Nitrogen c) Hydrogen d) Carbon Dioxide
What is Nitrogen?
500
An electrically neutral, weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with a half-integer spin, and a disputed but small non-zero mass.