Ch. 1
These seven things are known as the properties of life.
What are Order, Reproduction, Growth and Development, Energy Processing, Response to Environment, Regulation, and Evolutionary Adaptation
Carbon can make this many bonds.
What is 4?
What are proteins?
___________ _________ is a common term used to describe the plasma membrane. It is a way of describing that structures within the membrane are not fixed.
What is "fluid mosaic"?
A plasma membrane lets things that are small and non polar pass through freely, but larger molecules and polar molecules can't cross without assistance. This is known as ____________ ______________.
What is selective permeability?
Describe Structural Organizational Theory
What are: Atoms, Molecules, Macromolecules, Organelles, Cells, Tissues, Organ, Organ System, Population, Community, Ecosystem, and Biosphere
In this type of bond, electrons are shared between atoms.
What is covalent?
We store glucose in our bodies in this form...
What is glycogen?
The plasma membrane is largely composed of phospholipids which have _____________ phosphorus heads and _________ tail composed of two fatty acid chains.
What are hydrophylic and hydrophobic?
When a cell takes in matter by enfolding matter in part of the plasma membrane that pinches off to form a vessicles it is called...
What is endocytosis?
____________________ are recyclers that change complex matter into simpler mineral nutrients.
What are decomposers?
A great example of a __________ bond is the structure of H20.
What is a hydrogen bond?
What is hydrolysis?
(Hydro - Lysis)
This spiral like structure is used by bacteria cells for mobility. Sperm cells use them too.
What is a flagella?
In ___________ ______________ ATP is used to move molecules through the plasma membrane against their concentration gradient.
What is active transport?
Ask a question --> Research --> Create a hypothesis --> Make a Prediction --> Test hypothesis with experiment --> Share your findings.
This is called the __________ ____________
Scientific Process or Scientific Method
These elements are most common in life.
What are Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen
(HONC)
A sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate, are the components of...
What is a nucleotide?
This organelle contains digestive enzymes used for digestion and waste disposal in the cell.
What is a lysosome?
The letters of ATP stand for ______ ___ _________.
What is Adenosine Tri Phosphate?
______________, ______________, and _____________ are the three domains of life.
What are Bacteria, Archea, and Eukaryotes.
If you add the protons and neutrons of an atom, you will get this...
What is the Mass #?
This type of fat has no double bonds in its carbon chain.
What is saturated fat?
This area of the cell contains rRNA (ribosomal RNA) and has a role in the creation of ribosomes.
It is part of an organelle.
What is the nucleolus?
These two primary factors impact enzyme activity rate.
What are PH and Temperature?