Chapter 1
This phenomenon results in a population adapting to its environment.
What is evolution?
This category of bonds shares electrons between atoms.
What is covalent bond?
The term describing a substance that has affinity for water.
What is hydrophilic?
The most versatile of elements due to its ability to form 4 bonds with other elements.
What is Carbon?
Energy rich molecules that use repeating subunits to build long chains through dehydration synthesis.
What are carbohydrates?
This type of cell has a nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
What is eukaryotic cell?
This category of bonds transfers electrons to form a bond through attraction of charges.
What is ionic bond?
Resulting from hydrogen bonds, this property of water links water molecules together.
What is cohesion?
Name this functional group: -OH
What is hydroxyl?
Versatile molecules made of amino acids linked by peptide bonds. Often seen as enzymes and in cellular structure and reception.
What are proteins?
This person who wrote The Origin of Species is credited as the father of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The outer electron shell that engages in bonding.
What is valance shell?
This is the property of water that refers to its ability to stick with other substances, and is the mechanism behind how plants distribute water throughout its system.
What is adhesion?
Name this functional group: -CO
What is carbonyl?
This process forms the linkage between two monosaccharides to form polysaccharides.
What is dehydration synthesis?
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
This type of covalent bond exhibits unequal sharing of electrons.
What is polar bond?
Because a water molecule is polar, oxygen and hydrogen have ____ charges.
What are partial charges?
The term to refer to compounds with the same molecular formula but different structures and hence different properties
What is isomer?
Unlike saturated fatty acids that have no double bonds and are solid at room temperature, this type of fatty acid includes double bonds and if a liquid or oil at room temperature.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
Producers and consumers are involved in the transfer of energy and the transformation of matter. What theme of biology is this referring to?
What is energy and matter?
This is an atom's attraction for electrons in a covalent bond and the property that results in polarity.
What is electronegativity?
A high concentration of H+ (hydrogen ions) is more acidic or basic?
What is acidic?
Isomers that are mirror images of each other.
When proteins lose their structure and function, they become _____.
What is denatured?