Prefixes
The meaning of the prefix "bio-."
What is life?
Multiple types of atoms working together.
What is a molecule?
The condition of staying the same.
What is homeostasis?
The most important biological molecule that provides chemical energy.
What is ATP?
The meaning of the prefix "gluc-."
What is sugar?
A group of organs working together.
What is an organ system?
Feedback loop that helps to maintain homeostasis.
What is negative feedback?
The molecule that becomes ATP after taking in phosphate.
What is ADP?
What is fat?
Multiple organ systems working together.
What is an organism?
Feedback mechanism that amplifies change.
What is positive feedback?
The process in which glucose is broken down in the cytoplasm.
The meaning of the prefix "macro-."
What is large.
A group of cells working together that have a similar function.
What is a tissue?
The net movement of water from higher solute concentration to lower solute concentration.
What is osmosis?
Final step in the breakdown of glucose. Most ATP is produced.
What is the electron transport chain?
The meaning of the prefix "nucl-."
What is center?
Multiple types of organelles working together.
What is a cell?
The kind of transport where particles move from higher concentration to lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
The series of reactions in which pyruvate is broken down into carbon dioxide.
What is the Krebs Cycle?