Complex Organic Molecules
What are the four complex organic molecules?
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleotides
Animals that feed on both plants and other animals are called?
Omnivores
What form of Learning does the Sensitive Period take place in?
Imprinting
What are the steps to the scientific method?
Observe, hypothesize, predict, experiment, and conclusion.
The sharing between two atoms that are unequal is what type of bond?
Polar Covalent Bonds
Fats are also known as?
Triglycerides
What are some carbon reservoirs?
Living or dead organisms - trees
Fossil Fuels
What letter represents the exponential curve, and what letter represents the logistic curve?
J (exponential) and S (logistic)
"Makes generalizations based on collecting and analyzing a large number of specific observations." is what type of reasoning, inductive or deductive?
Inductive
What makes Isotopes different than regular atoms?
Their number of neutrons
What are the two polymers of Nucleotides?
DNA and RNA
About what percent of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?
10%
When a female chooses a mate based on appearance or mating ritual, that is called?
Sexual Selection
What are all the characteristics of life?
Organized, Acquire Materials and Energy, Reproduce, Capacity to adapt Evolutionary, Grow and Develop, Maintain Homeostasis, Respond to Stimuli
Organic molecules always contain
Carbon and Hydrogen
What basic structural feature do all steroids share?
4 fused carbon rings.
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
Energy + 6 CO2 + 6 H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6 O2
What type of learning occurs when an animal’s behavior is shaped by rewards and punishments?
Operant Conditioning
What are the four strengths of science?
Anti-Authoritarian, Self-Correcting, Publicly Understandable, and Predictive.
What is adhesion and cohesion
Adhesion: Water adheres to a surface or object (water droplets on a window after a rain)
Cohesion: Water comes together in a cohesive unit (beads coming together to form a stream of water)
What is the polymer of protiens?
polypeptides
What process converts ammonium (NH₄⁺) into nitrate (NO₃⁻)?
Nitrification
What are the three symbiotic relationships and what are the relationships like?
Parasitism - One benefits while the other is harmed
Commensalism - One benefits while the other is not benefitting or being harmed.
Mutualism - Both organisms benefit from each other.
What is a Law and a Theory?
What is my Definition?
Law: Description of a pattern in nature. The HOW
Theory: Explanation as to why a pattern (law) exists. What is the mechanism behind it? Describe hidden processes and predict phenomena. The WHY
A solution that contains more hydrogen ions (H⁺) than hydroxide ions (OH⁻) is considered what?