The World of Chemistry
Smallest Unit of Life
More Energy Please!
The Code of Life
Oh Those Genes
100
The process by which macromolecules are joined together is called _______________ and the process where they are broken down is called ___________________.
What are dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis?
100
These are two examples of passive transport.
What are diffusion and osmosis?
100
This is the formula for cellular respiration.
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 ---> 6CO2 + 6H20 + energy?
100
These are the three enzymes involved in DNA replication.
What are DNA helicase, DNA polymerase, and DNA ligase?
100
This is the movement of alleles into or out of a population.
What is gene flow?
200
__________________ is found in plant cell walls and __________________ is found in fungal cell walls.
What are cellulose and chitin?
200
This type of cell has a cell wall and is an absorptive heterotroph.
What is fungi?
200
These are the types of fermentation
What are alcoholic fermentation and lactic acid fermentation?
200
These are the names of the fragments on the lagging strand of the replication fork during DNA replication.
What are Okazaki fragments?
200
These are two examples of genetic drift.
What are bottleneck effect and founder effect?
300
Amino acids are made up of these three groups.
What are the carboxyl group, amine group, and a variable (R) group?
300
This is the correct sequence of the transport of proteins.
What is the RER --> Golgi ---> vesicles ----> plasma membrane.
300
The Krebs cycle (citric acid cycle) takes place here.
What is the mitochondrial matrix?
300
If the DNA strand to be transcribed is 5'-AAA TAA CCG GAC-3', this is the mRNA strand that is formed.
3'-UUU AUU GGC CUG-5'
300
This type of selection eliminates the extreme phenotypes and favors a more intermediate form.
What is stabilizing selection?
400

This chemical reaction in a cell releases energy and is spontaneous 

What is an exergonic reaction?

400
This type of protein completely spans the hydrophobic interior of the plasma membrane.
What is an integral protein?
400
This is the formula for photosynthesis.
light What is 6C02 + 12H20 -----> C6H12O6 + H20+6O2
400
This disease is caused by a point mutation in the hemoglobin gene.
What is sickle cell anemia?
400
According to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium these 5 conditions must be met in order to maintain a stable, non-evolving population.
1. Large population size 2. No migration 3. No mutation 4. Random mating 5. No natural selection
500

This type of inhibition occurs when a substrate binds to a site other than the active site to prevent enzyme catalysis.

What is allosteric inhibition?

500
This is what happens when a plant cell is placed in a hypotonic solution.
It becomes turgid
500
These are the two main processes of photosynthesis.
What are the light dependent and light independent reactions?
500
This enzyme is used to catalyze the formation of DNA from RNA in HIV infections.
What is reverse transcriptase?
500
Determine the percent of the population that is homozygous dominant if the percent of the population that is homozygous recessive is 16%
What is 36%