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Characteristics of Life
The Chemistry of Life
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Other "stuff"
100
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
100
Putting on a jacket when it's cool outside is an example of what?
What is responding to change?
100
This is the cell's fuel source.
What is ATP?
100
How does iodine react to starch?
What is it turns black?
100
The process that converts the sun's energy into energy stored as food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Compounds that cannot mix with water.
What are lipids?
200
A chick getting bigger and transforming into a chicken is an example of this characteristic of life.
What is growth and development?
200
Plants store extra sugar in the form of ______...
What is starch?
200
Hemoglobin is an example of what?
What is a protein?
200
An organism that get its energy from dead organisms and animal wastes.
What is a decomposer?
300
These come from animals and are usually solid at room temperature.
What are fats?
300
An ameba splitting into 2 new offspring is an example of which characteristic of life?
What is reproduction?
300
The 2 types of lipids are...
What are fats/oils and phospholipds?
300
Compounds made of sugars.
What are carbohydrates?
300
All living things are made up of about this percentage of water.
What is 70%?
400
Large molecules made up of subunits called amino acids.
What are proteins?
400
Humans maintaining a body temperature of 98.6 degrees is an example of which characteristic of life?
What is homeostasis?
400
These chemicals are made up of subunits called nucleotides.
What are nucleic acids?
400
Special proteins that make chemical reactions in cells occur quickly.
What are enzymes?
400
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
500
These molecules form most of the cell membrane.
What are phospholipis?
500
An offspring having some or all of the traits of its parents is caused by which of the 6 characteristics of life?
What is having DNA?
500
Which end of phospholipids are attracted to water?
What is the head?
500
What are the 2 types of carbohydrates?
What are simple and complex carbohydrates?
500
What does ATP stand for?
What is adenosine triphosphate?