Macromolecules
Largest organic molecules found in living things
What are macromolecules?
Two different cell types
What are prokaryotic and eukaryotic?
Independent relationship between two species
What is symbiosis?
Gregor Mendel
Who is the Father of modern Genetics?
The movement or particles from an area of high concentration to a low concentration
What is diffusion?
The joining of smaller compounds to make larger ones
What is polymerization?
Cell structure that makes proteins
What are ribosomes?
Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
What are the three classes of symbiotic relationships?
The study of biological inheritance
What is genetics?
Types of transport
What are active and passive?
The four groups of macromolecules
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, proteins?
The brain of the cell
What is the nucleus?
A series of more or less predictable changes that occur in a community over time
What is succession?
Factors that are passed from parents to offspring
What are genes?
Three types of cell solutions
What are isotonic, hypotonic, and hypertonic?
This macromolecule has a phosphate group, nitrogenous base, and a sugar
What are nucleic acids?
Transport system of the cell
What is Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The number of individuals of a species that an environment can support is know as its carrying capacity
What is carrying capacity?
Organisms that have two different alleles for the same gene
What is heterozygous?
Cells in this type of solution will shrink
What is a hypertonic solution?
Glycerol is the backbone of this macromolecule
What are lipids?
Used during cell division
What are lysosomes?
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
Different forms of a gene
What are alleles?
Diffusion of water across a membrane
What is osmosis?