Chemistry of Life
Glycosidic linkages occur between amino acids in the formation of this polymer (macromolecule).
What is a protein?
This is the specific type of lipid comprising the plasma membrane of all cells.
What is phospholipid?
All living systems require a constant input of this.
What is energy?
Cells can communicate with hormones over a long distance via this.
What is the bloodstream?
2 daughter cells with identical (same) amount of DNA as the parent cell.
This type of macromolecule is found in abundance in plant cell walls. (Cellulose)
What is a carbohydrate?
To obtain some nutrients and remove wastes, this process is used by prokaryotes.
What is diffusion?
This enzyme is responsible for catalyzing the reaction of ADP to ATP.
What is ATP synthase?
What is a ligand?
The cell cycle consists of interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. In this specific phase, DNA is replicated.
What is the S phase of Interphase?
This type of reaction is responsible for the breakdown of polymers like carbohydrates or nucleic acids.
What is hydrolysis?
All cells of living organisms are composed of a plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and THESE.
This transfers energy from electrons in a series of coupled reactions to establish an electrochemical gradient.
What is the electron transport chain?
This 7-pass transmembrane protein is an example of a highly conserved receptor in eukaryotes.
What is a G-protein-coupled receptor?
When the cell cycle goes awry and cells escape checkpoints (growing out of control), this can result.
What is cancer?
Water has unique properties. This type of bond is responsible for cohesion, adhesion, and the high heat of vaporization.
What is hydrogen bond?
For this reason, increased foldings of membranes are capable of many chemical reactions, obtaining maximum nutrients, and removal of wastes.
What is an increase is cell surface area?
Cellular respiration is this specific type of metabolic reaction.
What is catabolic?
Signal transduction can be amplified in this way. (I will accept one of a given set of answers.)
What is phosphorylation cascade, protein modification, conformational changes, or second messengers?
This M checkpoint within the cell cycle checks that this specific event has properly occurred.
What is the proper alignment and connection of spindle fibers to the sister chromatids during metaphase?
Of the following functional groups, THIS one is non-polar. Carbonyl, Methyl, Sulfhydryl.
What is Methyl?
This organelle will be in high concentration in the muscle cells of runners.
What is mitochondria?
These are the products of the light reactions during photosynthesis.
What are NADPH and ATP?
This is an example of a cellular response to a signal transduction pathway in which a cell undergoes programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis?
Interactions between cyclins and __ control the cell cycle.
What are cyclin-dependent kinases?