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Smallest thing scientists have studied is:
Cells
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What is the monomer for carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides
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What do Covalent bonds do?
Share
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What do ionic bonds do?
Take or Give
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What does Vander Waals equation mean in short?
Clumped Together
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What do hydrogen bonds do?
help tie things together
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Are lipids hydrophilic or hydrophobic?
hydrophobic
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Hydrogen bonds between two molecules is is because the water is?
polar
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What are three chemicals found in carbohydrates
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
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CHO is?
Carbohydrates
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The monomer for nucleic acids are called?
Nucleotides
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The molecules like control/limit what goes in and out of a cell is called?
Phospholipids
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Nonmoving energy, but has a potential to move is called
Potential Energy
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What cannot be made or destroyed? ?
Energy
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Lofe arose on earth approximately _____ years ago?
4 billion
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Population of organisms have been able to inhabit a wide variety of environments on earth, because they?
Adapt through evolution
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Characteristic of most living organisms are
  • Regulation of internal environment
  • One or more cells ability to produce biological molecules
  • Ability to extract energy from the environment
  • All of the above
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Homeostasis involves the regulation of
Constant internal environment
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A group of sales that work together to perform a similar function
Tissues
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In order for natural selection to occur,
certain traits must improve greater chance of survival and reproduction than other traits
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What is another domain on the tree of life
Plantae
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The information needed to produce proteins is called?
Genes
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Evolution is:
The change in genetic make up of a population through time
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Testable; Reject
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Eukaryotic cells differ from prokaryotic cells, and the eukaryotic : the same monomers, but have a structural and functional differences. What is that?
Organelles
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Scientific names of organisms:
Genus; Species
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The stabilitu of the three-dimensional shape of many large molecules is dependent on:
Hydrogen Bonds
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What changes about chemical reactions
Its bonding partners
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cellulose since charge are composed of the same monomers, but have a structural and functional differences, what characteristic is that?
Differnt types of glycosidic linkages
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what distinguishes carbohydrates from other macromolecules?
carbohydrates consist of a carbon bonded to hydrogen in a hydroxyl group
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what classes does cholesterol fall under since it is nonpolar?
Lipids
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A molecule that attracts and repels water is?
Amphipathic
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Triglycerides are composed of ______ and ______.
Fatty acids; glycerol
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A five carbon sugar is called?
Pentose
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Energy of movement is called?
Kinetic
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Energy transformations increase in…
Entrophy reduce usable energy
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A reaction has a _G of -20 kcal/mol. This reaction is
Exergonic and Equilibrium is far toward completion
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3 types of lipids
Triglycerides, phospholipids, and steroids
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CHONP means?
C (carbon) H(hydrogen) O(oxygen) N(nitrogen) P(phosphorus)
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Two types of nucleic acids
DNA and RNA
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The basic structural and philological unit of all living organisms is ?
Cells
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The initial oxygen in the atmosphere came from
Cyanobacteria
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animals and plant cells that have a nucleus that also produce oxygen are called
Eukaryotic
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A family tree that shows the evolutionary historyelationships through to exist among groups of organisms
Phylogentic tree
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The levels of complexity are:
Cells, tissues, organ, organelles, population, and community
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Main ourpose of an experiment
Reason and Data
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What questions cannot be answered through the scientific method
Morals, religion, subjective, and supernatural
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Part of an atom that describes how it behaves chemically is that
Electrons
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What particle does not add weight?
Electrons
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Protons + Neutrons
Mass
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The ability of an atom to combine with others is determined by?
Valence Electrons
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Adams with the same protons, but different number number of neutrons is also called an:
Isotope
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What do all organisms get from their environment
Nutrients
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The sum total of all chemical transformations and their work done in all crlls of an organisms
Metabolism
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Chemical bonds formed by electric attractions are called
Ionic bonds
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what is the main function of cellulose?
Provide botanical strength to plants cell walls
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what makes lipids a good barrier molecule?
hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail
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The monomer for proteins is?
Amino acids
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