General
True or False: All living things respond to their environment.
True
Name the four macromolecules.
Nucleic acids, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids
What does cell theory explain?
What cells are and how they relate to all living things.
Active transport and passive transport
What is the full form of DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Name the levels of biological organization in order from smallest to largest.
What is the name of large molecules that each have different structures and functions in the body?
Macromolecules
True or false: All cells come from pre-existing cells through division.
150 Bonus points to any team that can say the other 2 parts of the cell theory.
The cell membrane is ________ _________, meaning it only lets certain materials through.
What is the acronym used to represent the phases of cell division?
PMAT
100 Bonus points to any team for telling us what each letter stands for.
Does biology include the study of fungi and protists?
Yes.
100 Bonus points: What is the name for fungi and protists?
Enzymes are biological _________.
Catalysts
100 Bonus points to any team that explains what catalysts do
Another 100 Bonus points to any team that tells us the parts of an enzyme.
What are the two types of cells?
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic
100 Bonus points to any team who can differentiate between both
Another 100 bonus points to any team that can tell us the two types of organisms classified by number of cells
What are the two types of passive transport?
Diffusion and osmosis.
What is it called when something goes wrong in the cell cycle?
Mutation
100 Bonus points for any team that explains what this can lead to.
What was the acronym used for what makes something living?
MRS NERG
What are the two parts of a lipid?
Glycerol head and fatty acid tail
100 Bonus points to any team that tells us how each part reacts to water.
What is the difference between plant cells and animal cells?
Plant cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts. They are also more rectangular in shape. Animals cells are more round.
What is homeostasis?
The process of maintaining a stable internal environment inside an organism, even when the outside environment changes.
100 Bonus points to any team for giving an example.
What are the 4 stages of the cell cycle?
G1, S, G2, M
100 Bonus points to any team that can tell us why cells go through the cell cycle.
200 bonus points to any team that can name the full forms of these 4 stages.
What does the N stand for? (In the acronym that represents living things)
Nutrition
Adenine-Thymine, Guanine-Cytosine
100 Bonus points to any team that can name the fifth nitrogenous base of nucleic acids.
Name all of the cell organelles we talked about.
Nucleus, mitochondria, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus, lysosomes, cell membrane, cytoplasm
Explain the difference between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. 100 Bonus points for explaining each process as well.
Cellular respiration is used to turn glucose into ATP. Photosynthesis is used to turn sunlight and water into glucose.
Cellular respiration is used by animals to make energy and photosynthesis is used by plants to make glucose.
Explain the difference between genes and chromosomes.
Genes are sections of DNA that code for specific proteins or traits.
Chromosomes are tightly coiled strands of DNA found in the nucleus of a cell.