Characteristics of Life
What is the smallest unit of life?
What is a cell?
What is the first step in the scientific method?
What is making an observation?
What is the atomic number of an element based on?
The number of protons.
This macromolecule includes sugars and starch
What are carbohydrates?
What term describes water’s ability to resist changes in temperature?
What is high specific heat capacity?
Name the three domains of Life
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
What type of variable is deliberately changed in an experiment?
What is the independent variable?
What type of bond involves the sharing of electrons?
What is an amino acid?
What bond binds water molecules together?
What are hydrogen Bonds?
Organisms of the same species living in the same area make up what?
What is a population?
What type of reasoning uses general principles to predict specific results?
What is deductive reasoning?
Why is water considered polar?
Because oxygen has a partial negative charge and hydrogen has a partial positive charge.
This bond is used to link amino acids together.
What is a peptide bond?
On the pH scale, a solution with pH 8 is considered what?
What is basic (alkaline)?
What is missing from this level of organization?
Cell -> Tissue -> Organ -> XXXXX -> Organism
What is an Organ System?
A falsifiable statement that predicts a possible outcome of an experiment is called what?
What is a hypothesis?
What is a pH scale?
Phospholipids are primarily used to build what?
Why is evaporative cooling (like sweating) important for living organisms?
It helps maintain homeostasis by regulating body temperature.
Body temperature regulation and blood sugar regulation are examples of what properties of life?
What is Homeostasis?
In a scientific paper, where would you find the interpretation of results?
What is the discussion section?
What property of Water allows insects to walk on its surface?
What is surface tension (Caused by cohesion)?
Which protein structure level is determined by hydrogen bonding between backbone atoms (alpha helices, beta sheets)?
What is secondary structure?
Water is considered a universal solvent. Which type of molecules dissolve most easily in water?
What are polar molecules and ions?