Ecology
What is a community?
A group of populations that interact in an environment
Once the surface area to volume ratio gets too small what must the cell do in order to survive?
Divide
What term is given to water sticking to itself?
Cohesion
The making of ATP from glucose is called what?
Cellular respiration
What color of visible light has the shortest wavelength but the greatest energy?
Violet
What type of organism is an earthworm, based on its mode of nutrition?
Detritivore
What is 44mm equivalent to in micrometers?
44,000
What type of substance will dissolve in water?
Polar
Where is the biochemical energy that cells use stored?
In chemical bonds
What is photolysis?
Splitting of water using light
What is the purpose of capture, mark, recapture and quadrat sampling?
To estimate populations
What type of cell does NOT have membrane-bound organelles?
Prokaryotic cells
What is hydrolysis?
water breaking polymers into monomers
When cells use ATP, energy is released. What are the products of this reaction?
ADP and phosphate
What does photosynthesis NEED in order to occur?
CO2\H2O\sunlight
What is the name of the 3rd trophic level?
secondary
What type of stem cells are used to treat Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy?
Embryonic
What can cause a protein to unfold or denature?
Temperature or Ph
If oxygen is present where does the pyruvate, made in glycolysis, go?
Mitocondira
What 3 factors are needed for seed germination?
Water, O2, Warm Temperature
What are the 3 ways in which energy is lost in a food chain?
not consumed
not absorbed
heat via cellular respiration
What are the 3 parts of the cell theory?
cells are the basic unit of life
all organisms are made from one or more cells
cells only arise from pre-existing cells.
What 2 monosaccharides bond to create the disaccharide lactose?
glucose and galactose
How much ATP is made, per glucose molecule, Electron Transport Chain
34
What two bases are pyrimidines?
cytosine and thymine