Themes in the Study of Life
The units of heritance that transfer from parent to offspring.
What is Gene?
The attraction of a particular atom for the electrons of a covalent bond.
What is Electronegativity?
The movement of water within spaces due to the combined forces of cohesion and adhesion.
What is Capillary Action?
One phosphate group can split off an release energy.
What is ATP?
Monomers are covalently bonded with the loss of a water molecule.
What is Dehydration Reaction?
The organisms on Earth were modified descendents of common ancestors.
When the atoms share the electron equally.
What is Nonpolar Covalent Bonds?
Water molecules are held together with other water molecules by
What is Hydrogen Bonds?
The shape a carbon forms when it has 4 single bonds.
What is Tetrahedron?
A covalent bond between 2 monosaccharides by a dehydration reaction.
What is Glycosidic Linkage?
The branch of biology that classifies species.
What is Taxonomy?
An attraction between an anion and cation.
What is Ionic Bond?
A substance that minimizes changes in concentrations of H+ and OH-.
What is Buffer?
Compounds that have same number of atoms of the same elements but different structures and have different properties.
What is Isomers?
Proteins are held together by
What is Peptide Bonds?
A generalization based on observational data.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
An atoms bonding capacity which usually equals the number of unpaired electrons.
What is Valence?
The amount of heat that can be absorbed or lost for 1g of a substance to change its temperature by 1°C.
What is Specific Heat?
The carbons have covalent bonds with the same atoms but they differ in their spatial arrangments.
What is Cis-Trans Isomers?
The monomers of the macromolecules are
What is Nucleotides, Monosaccharides, and Amino Acids?
The interactions between parts gets progressively more complex as you increase levels.
What is Emergent Properties?
Molecules or atoms that are very close can be attracted by fleeting charge differences.
What is Van der Waals Interactions?
On occasion, a hydrogen that is forming a hydrogen bond between two molecules of water shifts from one molecule to the other and leaves its electron behind.
What is The Dissociation of Water?
The only functional group that is mainly unreatice and acts as an identifier.
What is Methyl Group?
The result of hydrogen bonds between repeating parts of a polypeptide bond are coils and folds referred to as
What is Secondary Structure of Proteins?