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Characteristics of Living Things
Chemistry
Enzymes
Properties of Water
Macromolecules and Carbon
100

 A characteristic of all living things includes "the ability to move." 

No/False


Coral doesn't move, for example. 

100

The left side of a chemical reaction.

What are the reactants? 

100

An enzyme is this biomolecule. 

What is a protein? 

100
A mixture in which the substances are evenly distributed.
What is a solution?
100
Macromolecules are also known as _____________.
What are polymers?
200

The process in which organisms keep everything inside their bodies within certain limits.

What is homeostasis?

200

The end result of a chemical reaction.

What are the products? 

200

Temperature (in Celsius) of an average human. 

What is 37 deg. C? 

200

The property of water that causes a water droplet to cling to a blade of grass.

What is adhesion?

200
The most important carbohydrate in human cells.
What is glucose?
300
A food web illustrates this characteristic of living things.
What is living things need material and energy?
300
Electrons found in the outermost energy level (orbital).

What are valence electrons? 

300

What are enzymes?

Biological catalysts--speed up chemical reactions 

300

What force allows water to build up on a penny?

What is cohesion (cohesive force)? 

300
A nucleotide is a ____________ of nucleic acids.
What is a monomer?
400

The characteristic of why birds fly south for the winter.

What is living things respond to their environment?

400

The number of electrons in Carbon that are available to form bonds.

What are 4 valence electrons?

400

Each enzymes can only catalyze a very specific chemical reaction because of this. 

What is the SHAPE of the enzyme's active site can only fit a specific substrate (lock and key). 

400

Salt is dissolved in water. Water is the _____________.

What is solvent?

400
Simple sugar is to starch as ___________ is to protein.
What is amino acid?
500

8 characteristics that all living things share.

What are:

DNA

EVOLUTION

HOMEOSTASIS

METABOLISM

STIMULUS/RESPONSE

MADE OF CELLS

GROW & DEVELOP

REPRODUCE 

500

The pH scale explained in detail.

What is 0-6 are acids (0 being the strongest acid); 7 is neutral (pure water); and 8-14 are bases (14 being the strongest base).

500

When an enzyme changes its shape, or loses its structure, it cannot bind to its substrate.

What is denatured? 

500
Water molecules are considered polar because of this.
What is the oxygen side is slightly negative and the hydrogen side is slightly positive?
500
The reason that carbon is so special compared to other elements.
What is carbon atoms can bond to one another and form a lot of different structures?