Macromolecules
Photosynthesis
Central dogma
Mitosis
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100
What are the four macromolecules of life?
What are lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids.
100
What is the term for an organism that makes its own source of chemical energy?
What is a producer.
100
During DNA Replication what enzyme adds base pairs to the original strand?
What is DNA Polymerase
100
Chromosomes are composed of two
What is sister chromatids.
100
How can there be so many different types of proteins when there are only 23 different amino acids?
What is the number and sequence of amino acids in each protein is different.
200
Cell membranes are composed of which macromolecule?
What is lipid.
200
What is the name of the process that captures energy from sunlight to make sugars that store chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis.
200
What enzyme unzips DNA by breaking hydrogen bonds?
What is helicase
200
In a single-celled organism, mitosis is used for
What is reproduction (asexual)
200
How can glucose and fructose be different substances but have the same chemical formula??
What is the atoms in the molecules are arranged differently
300
What macromolecule is not soluble in water?
What is lipid.
300
What is the main difference between a plant and animal cell?
What is plant cells have a cell wall and chloropasts.
300
Which type of RNA brings the information in the genetic code from the nucleus to other parts of the cell?
What is mRNA
300
What is the result of mitosis?
What is two identical daughter cells.
300
What accounts for many of the unique properties of water that make it essential for life
What is polarity.
400
Identify the building blocks (monomers) of a protein.
What is amino acids.
400
Identify the reactants of photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide (6CO2) and water (6H20).
400
How many nucleotides are needed to specify three amino acids?
What is 9
400
During which stage of mitosis do chromosomes separate?
What is anaphase.
400
Describe the structure of a DNA nucleotide.
What is phosphate, deoxyribose sugar, one nitrogenous base.
500
List the three components of a DNA nucleotide.
Sugar, phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.
500
Identify the products of photosynthesis.
What is sugar (C6H12)6) and oxygen (602).
500
T/F: In eukaryotes, transcription and translation both take place in the nucleus.
What is False.
500
During which stage of mitosis does the cell cytoplasm divide?
What is cytokinesis.
500
Unlike a eukaryotic cell, a prokaryotic cell does not have
What is a nucleus.