biology 1
What is the molecular formula of glucose?
C6H12O6
Digestive system absorbs nutrients into the bloodstream, which carries it elsewhere in the body.
The function of the mitochonria in a cell
What is the production of ATP energy or the powerhouse
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis
A testable solution to a problem.
What is a hypothesis?
Energy currency of cells
What is Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
Interactions between all the biotic and abiotic factors in a defined area.
What is an ecosystem?
The movement of ions or molecules across a cell membrane into a region of higher concentration, assisted by enzymes and requiring energy.
What is active transport?
An organelle where photosynthesis takes place.
What is a chloroplast
Water has opposite charges due to its unequal sharing of electrons.
What is polarity?
Organisms that consume their food
What are heterotrophs?
All of the same organisms in a defined area.
What is a population?
Found in all cells and is a jelly like substance?
cytoplasm
A process in which a cell completely surrounds a substance to move materials into the cell.
What is endocytosis?
Macromolecules that include DNA and RNA
What are nucleic acids?
A green pigment present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll
Complex interactions with an ecosystem of feeding relationships.
What is a food web?
An organism that obtains energy from sunlight or inorganic compounds.
What is an autotroph or producer
Structure that sorts, modifies and packages proteins.
What is a golgi apparatus?
Insulation, long term energy, and cell membrane structure
What are lipids?
This process is used by the yeast in bread to produce energy and also results in the formation of acids and alcohols
fermentation
a movement of ions and other atomic or molecular substances across cell membranes without need of energy input.
What is passive transport
Another name for plasma membrane and what is the function?
What is a cell membrane and it regulates the passage of molecules in and out of the cytoplasm.
The variable changed in an experiment.
What is the manipulated or independent variable?
Structures composed of amino acids
What are proteins?