Chemistry of life
The monomer for carbohydrates?
What is a Monosaccharide
This stage of the cell cycle includes the S-phase where chromosomes are copied before division occurs.
What organelle is used in cellular respiration to convert glucose into ATP (energy)?
the mitochondria
What bases are used in DNA?
Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Cytosine (C), and Guanine (G)
Name a food example of lipids.
butter, olive oil, bacon, avocados
The name for an enzyme that lower activation energy, thereby increasing the rate of the reaction.
What is a catalyst
This is the process that produces identical daughter cells usually for growth and repair of cells.
What is Mitosis
Because fermentation takes place in the absence of oxygen, it is said to be ____.
anaerobic (no oxygen)
The physical appearance of a trait
What is a phenotype
Name a type of food that is made by undergoing fermentation
Kimchi, aged cheese, yogurt, pickles, sourdough
This would happen if an enzyme was denatured.
What is -The enzyme would no longer be able to function and the chemical reaction it was helping would slow down or stop completely.
The name for egg and sperm cells
What are gametes
1) What organelle is used to help a plant produce their own food through photosynthesis?
2) What is the name of the green pigment?
1) Chloroplast
2) Chlorophyll
The monomer (building block) that makes up DNA and RNA
What is a nucleotide
The stable internal environment maintained by living things.
What is homeostasis?
This macromolecule regulates cell processes, forms bones and muscles, transports materials, and forms enzymes.
What are Proteins.
The term that refers to half of the chromosome number than original cell.
What is haploid
Gween is investigating how exercise affects the rate at which she can squeeze a ball. After several minutes, she begins to experience muscle soreness and fatigue. She knows that this means her muscles are beginning to run out of oxygen. Which process is likely causing the soreness in her muscle cells?
Lactic Acid Fermentation
This number of chromosomes are typically found in a human somatic cell.
What are 46 chromosomes?
The independent variable in a study examining the relationship between study time and test scores.
What is "study time"?
This consists of two monosaccharide molecules linked together.
What is a disaccharide?
The process that occurs when homologous chromosomes line up side by side and transfer genetic information from one chromosome to the other thus increasing genetic diversity.
What is crossing over.
The inputs of cellular respiration which are also the outputs of photosytheis.
What are Glucose and oxygen
A purple flower crosses with a white flower, and all the offspring come out purple, this is due to the allele for white flowers being
What is recessive
The part of the compound light microscope that is responsible for the initial magnification of the specimen.