The Cell
The four most common elements in living organisms are _____.
What are oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen.
This determines the shape of a protein.
What is the primary structure?
The molecule _____ is the main source of energy used to drive chemical reactions in cells.
What is ATP?
Charles Darwin is credited with creating the theory of evolution, which he called descent with ________.
What is modification?
_____ are the driest of all terrestrial biomes.
What are deserts?
These organelles are responsible for energy conversion, ____ in plants, and ____ in animals.
What are chloroplasts and mitochondria?
Information is transferred from the cell nucleus to ribosomes via the molecule _____.
What is RNA?
Cellular respiration occurs in this organelle.
What is the mitochondria?
Which of the following processes is likely to cause a population to deviate from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
Gene flow, mutation, genetic drift, or all of the above?
What is all of the above?
The sum of all Earth’s ecosystems is called the _____.
What is the biosphere?
Bacterial cells are prokaryotic. Unlike a typical eukaryotic cell, they lack _____.
What is a nucleus?
What are membrane bound organelles?
These proteins function to replicate DNA. ______, which unzips the DNA, _______, which adds new nucleotides to DNA, and _______, which seals the phosphodiester bond between two nucleotides.
What are DNA helicase, DNA polymerase and DNA ligase?
Glycolysis occurs in the __________, whereas all other parts of cellular respiration occur in the mitochondria.
What is the cytosol?
This type of selection shifts a phenotypic curve in favor of one extreme phenotype.
What is directional selection?
In Michigan, we live in the terrestrial biome known as _______ (3 words).
What is the temperate broadleaf forest?
_____ are the major lipids of plasma membranes.
What are phospholipids?
Enzymes increase the rate of a reaction by decreasing the _____.
What is activation energy?
This molecule is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.
What is O2?
Speciation with geographic isolation is called _____.
What is allopatric speciation?
A group of individuals of a single species that occupies the same general area defines a(n) _____.
What is a population?
This compound, a storage molecule of sugars in animals, is an example of a polysaccharide.
What is glycogen?
These four macromolecules are the main components of all living cells.
What are proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and carbohydrates?
_____________, ______________, ______________ are the three stages of cellular respiration.
What are glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation/citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation/ETC?
The species concept that states that a species is composed of a population or groups of populations that are able tointerbreed in nature is known as the _____ species concept.
What is biological?
A ecosystem is defined as the sum of both living and non-living factors.
Give an example of each.
What are abiotic and biotic factors?