Characteristics of Life
Scientific Method
Organic Molecules
Biochemistry
Potpourri
100
This is maintaining a constant environment.
What is homeostasis?
100
This is a hypothesis that has been and can be repeatedly tested successfully.
What is a law?
100
These are the four major groups of biomolecules.
What are proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and amino acids?
100
This is put in an enzyme at the active site.
What is a substrate?
100
This is the basic building block of all living things.
What is the cell?
200
This is what xylem and phloem are an example of in regards to the characteristics of life.
What is transport?
200
This is what quantitative data is.
What are charts and data?
200
This is found purely in organic molecules.
What is carbon?
200
This can denature enzymes.
What is improper temperature?
200
This is when the number of cells increase.
What is growth?
300
This is what a tadpole's transformation into a frog is an example of in regards to the characteristics of life.
What is growth/development?
300
This is an experimental group that is affected by all the same conditions of an experiment apart from the independent variable.
What is the control group?
300
This turns black in the presence of polysaccharides.
What is Iodine?
300
Maltose is an example of this.
What is a disaccharide?
300
Saturated fats come from these.
What are animals?
400
This is what nutrition is in regards to the characteristics of life.
How do organisms break down their food?
400
This is the variable that I change.
What is the independent variable?
400
These organisms produce glucose.
What are plants?
400
A monosaccharide is a ring of six of these.
What is a carbon?
400
Unsaturated fats come from these.
What are plants.
500
These are all the characteristics of life.
What are synthesis, transport, excretion, regulation, nutrition, growth/development, respiration, and reproduction?
500
This is the variable that we measure.
What is the dependent variable.
500
Biurets turns violet in the presence of this.
What are proteins?
500
Phospholipids have a hydrophobic side and this.
What is a hydrophilic side?
500
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Where do saturated fats come from?