Everybody Eats
Plants eat this; a natural byproduct of animal respiration
What is carbon dioxide?
What is water?
This cellular process produces four identical daughter cells
What is mitosis?
These sequences of nucleic acids are discrete units of heritability, coding for certain traits of organisms
What are genes?
This is a phase of the cell cycle that excludes mitosis and meiosis, marked by gap phases and a DNA synthesis phase
What is interphase?
This category of organisms would exclusively eat autotrophs
What are primary consumers?
An enzyme would be made of some of these building blocks, such as ALA, CYS, PRO
What are amino acids?
This nucleic acid containing organelle is found in eukaryotic cells, but not prokaryotes
What is the nucleus?
The universal energy source is eventually converted to ATP in the mitochondria
What is glucose?
6 O2+C6H12O6 -----> 6 CO2+6 H2O+Energy
What is the formula for cellular respiration?
These organisms eat dead and decaying material
What are decomposers?
Water expands upon freezing because of this unique property, specific to compounds that have hydrogen and oxygen
What are hydrogen bonds?
The powerhouse of the cell, this organelle was thought to be the result of endosymbiosis of two ancient cells
What is the mitochondria?
This anaerobic process converts glucose into two molecules of pyruvate, yielding 2 ATP as a byproduct
What is glycolysis?
The plasma membrane of cells is primarily composed of these hydrophobic molecules
What are phospholipids?
When removed from this ecosystem, this group of organisms would result in a decrease of all other population sizes
What are producers?
This class of lipids includes some hormones, including estrogen and testosterone, which can pass freely through cell membranes
What are steroids?
DNA in eukaryotic cells is found in this condensed form before S phase and division occurs
What is chromatin?
This flattened stack of tubular membranes, modifies, sorts, and packages proteins into vesicles and transports them to other organelles
What is the Golgi apparatus?
The exchange of carbon dioxide gas between photosynthetic plants and respiring animals is of primary importance of this biogeochemical cycle
What is the carbon cycle?
Eating a donut would increase the body's level of this monosaccharide, a universal energy source for ATP production
What is glucose?
These two properties of water are responsible for its capillary action, as well as its formation of a meniscus in a test tube
What are cohesion and adhesion?
Explain how water moves & what happens to a cell when placed in:
hypertonic solution
hypotonic solution
isotonic solution
what is:
Hyper: water leaves/ cell shrinks
Hypo: water enters/cell expands
Iso: equilibrium/ cell stays the same?
This biology technique utilizes agarose and charged electrodes, causing the migration of DNA from one end to another
What is gel electrophoresis?
List the levels of organization in ecology in increasing order of complexity
What are organism, population, biological community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere