Water and Life
The structure of water includes this type of bond between oxygen and hydrogen within a single molecule.
What is a covalent bond?
Carbon can form up to this number of covalent bonds, allowing for a diversity of organic molecules.
What is four?
ATP stands for this molecule, known as the energy currency of the cell.
What is adenosine triphosphate?
This organelle is the site of photosynthesis in plant cells.
What is the chloroplast?
DNA is considered the genetic material of living organisms because it:
What is stores and transmits genetic information?
The difference between cohesion and adhesion is:
What is cohesion is water sticking to itself, while adhesion is water sticking to other surfaces?
This polysaccharide provides structural support in plant cell walls.
What is cellulose?
This organelle is the primary site of aerobic respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
Light-dependent reactions convert solar energy into this form of chemical energy.
What are ATP?
One major structural difference between DNA and RNA is:
What is DNA is double-stranded while RNA is single-stranded?
This property of water prevents extreme temperature fluctuations in aquatic environments.
What is high specific heat capacity?
In digestion, this process breaks down macromolecules into monomers.
What is hydrolysis?
ATP releases energy when this bond is broken.
What is the bond between the second and third phosphate groups?
The fate of oxygen produced during photosynthesis is:
What is released into the atmosphere as a byproduct?
The nitrogenous bases in DNA pair as follows:
What is A with T and C with G?
Cohesion helps this process in plants, allowing water to move up through xylem vessels.
What is transpiration?
This type of reaction links monomers together to form macromolecules.
What is a condensation reaction?
One key difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration is:
What is aerobic respiration produces more ATP and requires oxygen?
This technique can be used to separate different pigments found in plant leaves.
What is chromatography?
A nucleotide consists of these three components.
What are a phosphate group, a sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
This type of attraction between water molecules is responsible for cohesion.
What are hydrogen bonds?
The difference between saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids is:
What is the number of double bonds in the hydrocarbon chain?
Three factors that can influence the rate of cellular respiration are:
What are temperature, oxygen availability, and glucose concentration?
Photosynthetic pigments absorb specific wavelengths of light because:
What is different pigments have unique absorption spectra?
The universal nature of the genetic code provides evidence for:
What is common ancestry among all living organisms?