Module 9
What is the smallest chemical unit of matter?
Atom
What is a decomposer?
Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
Which part of the skeleton Includes limbs and connecting bones?
Appendicular
What is the minimum amount of energy required by the body in a day?
Basal metabolic rate or BMR
How are the nucleotide bases paired together?
Adenine & Thymine
Guanine & Cytosine
DNA is made up of two basic parts: the backbone and the nucleotide bases. The double helix structure is formed by what part?
Backbone
Most microscopic organisms fit into which two kingdoms?
Monera and Protista
What are members of the kingdom Animalia that do not have a backbone?
Invertebrate (Remember there are many creatures without backbones but only those in Animalia are called invertebrates.)
Where does the energy that almost all living organisms need come from?
Sun
In the banana in the Ziploc bag experiment, we learned that yeast is a member of what family?
Fungi
Where is most of the DNA stored inside a cell?
Nucleus
An organism is made up of many eukaryotic cells. It makes its own food and has specialized structures. To which Kingdom does it belong?
Plantae
When a plant turns toward the sunlight, it is called?
Phototropism
There are 9 amino acids that the body cannot manufacture but needs. Where do we get them?
Proteins (either from meat or from a wide variety of plant protein)
In one of our labs in Mod 10, we compared bacterial reproduction and found that bacteria multiplied the greatest under which condition?
4. At room temperature
Plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food in a process known as?
Photosynthesis
What are the two structures inside plant cells which work together to create turgor pressure?
Cell wall and central vacuole
What kind of muscle would you find in the stomach?
Smooth muscle
What are the three categories that consumers are broken down into?
1. Herbivore
2. Omnivore
3. Carnivore
Chicken Bones (and animal bones) consist of cells surrounded by a substance called the bone matrix, which is composed primarily of two things. What are they?
Collagen and minerals
Name the four criteria for life
Have DNA, have a method to extract energy from surroundings and convert it into energy that sustains them, can sense changes and respond, reproduce
Why did people salt meat before refrigeration was available?
Presence of salt reduces bacteria
Name one place you find a ball and socket joint
Hip or Shoulder
Two animals are compared. The first one eats 3 times its own body weight in food. The second one eats less than its own weight in food every day. Which one is endothermic?
The first one because endothermic animals need a lot more energy in order to keep their internal temperature constant.
In our lab in Mod 12, we learned about combustion. What does combustion require? And what 3 things does it produce?
Combustion requires Oxygen and produces
Water, Energy, and Carbon Dioxide