Chemistry of Life
What is the cell?
The powerhouse of the cell due to its production of ATP.
What is the mitochondria?
The name of the biological catalyst that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.
What is an enzyme?
2 parts that makeup a solution.
What is solvent and solute?
The variable that responds to another.
What is a dependent variable?
The difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
What are organelles?
The organelles that contains the genetic material surrounded by the nuclear envelope.
What is the nucleus?
The process of breaking down complex molecules into more simple molecules.
What is catabolism?
Form of cellular transport that requires energy.
What is active transport?
What is significant or insignificant?
The 6 elements found in all living things.
(Can use an acronym)
What are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur?
(What is CHNOPS?)
What is the lysosome?
The essential nutrients required in large amounts by living organisms.
What are macronutrients?
Another name for the plasma membrane.
What is the phospholipid bilayer?
When one variable directly causes a change in another variable.
What is causation?
What is peptidoglycan?
The organelle that modifies, sorts, and packages proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus/complex?
Inorganic substances required by living organisms for various physiological functions.
What are minerals?
When in a hypertonic solution the cell does what.
What is shrink?
The general first step to the scientific method.
What is observation?
The 4 macromolecules found in living organisms.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids?
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
Non-protein molecules or ions that are required for enzymes to work properly.
What are cofactors and coenzymes?
The movement of molecules across a membrane with the help of transport proteins.
What is facilitated diffusion?
A well-substantiated explanation based on repeated experimentation and evidence
What is a theory?