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Bio100 Exam1

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What is the smallest particle of life? An Atom
What is more than one atom bound together? A Molecule
Large molecules such as nucleic acid, DNA, and RNA are what? Macromolecules
What is the smallest structure capable of performing all characteristics of life? The Cell
What is a group of cells? Tissue
What are the four types of tissue? Nervous, Muscular, Connective, and Epithelial
What are organs made out of? Tissue
What are the characteristics of life? Sensing and responding to the environment, having the capacity to grow, develop, reproduce, evolve, and to capture and use energy and raw materials
What are the reactions by which cells acquire and use energy to grow, survive, and reproduce? Metabolism
What is the transfer of energy from one organism to the next? Energy Flow
Energy flow is ____ way and gives of _____ every step of the way. One, Heat
What kind of organisms make their own food? Producers
What kind or organisms depend on energy stored in the tissues of producers? Consumers
What type of organisms break down remains and wastes? Decomposers
What do you call the group that is the standard for comparison in an experiment? The Control Group
What do you call the experimental group? The Variable
How many domains are there and what are they? There are 3: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
What is the large number of living species that are not extinct? Diversity of Life
How many kingdoms are there and what are they? 6: Archaea, Protista, Bacteria, Fungi, Plant, Animal
What domain do humans belong to? Eukarya
What kingdom do humans belong to? Animalia
What phylum do humans belong to? Chordata
What class do humans belong to? Mammalia
What order do humans belong to? Primates
What family do humans belong to? Hominidae
What genus do humans belong to? Homo
What species do humans belong to? sapiens
What is a hypothesis that has been tested many times? A Theory
What is supported over time and explain a broad range of scientific facts with high degree of reliability? A Scientific Theory
What four theories unify biology? The Cell Theory, The Gene Theory, The Theory of Heredity, and The Theory of Evolution
The organiztion of life is explained by what Theory? The Cell Theory
What is the smallest particle of life? An Atom
What do you call more than one atom together? A Molecule
Large molecules such as nucleic, DNA, and RNA are what? Macromolecules
What is the smallest structure capable of performing all characteristics of life? The Cell
What is a group of cells? Tissue
What are the four types of tissue? Nervous, Muscular, Connective, and Epithelial
What are organs made out of? Tissue
What are the characteristics of life? Sensing and responding to the environment, having the capacity to grow, develop, reproduce, evolve, and to capture and use energy and raw materials
What are the reactions by which cells acquire and use energy to grow, survive, and reproduce? Metabolism
What is the transfer of energy from one organism to the next? Energy Flow
Energy flow is ____ way and gives of _____ every step of the way. One, Heat
What kind of organisms make their own food? Producers
What kind or organisms depend on energy stored in the tissues of producers? Consumers
What type of organisms break down remains and wastes? Decomposers
What do you call the group that is the standard for comparison in an experiment? The Control Group
What do you call the experimental group? The Variable
How many domains are there and what are they? There are 3: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
What is the large number of living species that are not extinct? Diversity of Life
How many kingdoms are there and what are they? 6: Archaea, Protista, Bacteria, Fungi, Plant, Animal
What domain do humans belong to? Eukarya
What kingdom do humans belong to? Animalia
What phylum do humans belong to? Chordata
What class do humans belong to? Mammalia
What order do humans belong to? Primates
What family do humans belong to? Hominidae
What genus do humans belong to? Homo
What species do humans belong to? sapiens
What is a hypothesis that has been tested many times? A Theory
What is supported over time and explain a broad range of scientific facts with high degree of reliability? A Scientific Theory
What four theories unify biology? The Cell Theory, The Gene Theory, The Theory of Heredity, and The Theory of Evolution
The organiztion of life is explained by what Theory? Cell Theory
The molecular basis of inheritance is explained by what Theory? Gene Theory
The unity of life is explained by what Theory? The Theory of Heredity
The diversity of life is explained by what Theory? The Theory of Evolution
Who observed cells in cork in 1665 using only a 10x magnification and called them cells? Robert Hooke
Who saw 'animalcules' in rain water, looked at sperm, red blood cells, and insect eggs, and helps proved that there was no such thing as spontaneous generation? Anton van Leeuwenhoek
What is the cell theory? 1. Every organism is made of cells 2. Cell is smallest unit of life 3. Cells rise from preexisting cells
When it comes to the speed of reactions what ratio is important? The Surface Area to Volume Ratio
What is resolution? The ability to recognize two objects as two objects.
What type of microscopy has great detail, is black and white, and can be seen through? Transmission Electron Microscopy
What microscopy is three dimensional, and is a picture of the surface area? Scanning Electron Microscopy
What are Prokaryotic cells? Cells that do not membrane-bound organelles or DNA enclosed in nucleus
What kingdoms belong to Prokaryotic cells? Archaea, Bacteria
What is the direct connection between two cells in bacteria? a pili (or pilus)
What characteristic of bacteria let them stick to your lungs? The Capsule
What is a Eukaryotic cell? A cell with membrane bound organelles.
What kingdoms are associated with Eukaryotic cells? Plant, Animal, Protista, Fungi
What is the plasma membrane made of? A lipid bi-layer
What is a lipid bi-layer? Two layers of phospholipids, that are hydrophillic on the outside and hydrophobic on the inside.
What provides rigidity and helps hold together the plasma membrane? Cholesterol
What type of protein lets things move into and out of the cell? Channel Protein
What type of protein knows where the cell is? Recognition Protein
What type of protein moves things around within the cell? Carrier Protein
What type of protein reads symbols? Receptor Protein
The plasma membrane is _____ permeable? selectively
What is the outer defining limit of the cell and organelles and regulates what goes into and out of the cell? Plasma Membrane
What is diffusion? The transport across a membrane from a high solute concentration to a low solute concentration.
What affects the speed of diffusion? Molecular Size and Shape
What is the Brownian movement? Random, constant movement of atoms
What do you call a low solute concentration? Hypotonic
What do you call a high solute concentration? Hypertonic
What do you call en equal solute concentration? Isotonic
What requires a carrier protein to take a large molecule through a semi permeable membrane? Facilitated Diffusion
What requires energy and a protein and moves against a concentration gradient? Active Transport
What percent of ATP do we use to run the sodium/potassium pump? 20%
What is the process of engulfing something into a cell? Endocytosis
What is the process of tossing something out of the cell? Exocytosis
What is cytosol composed of? Mostly water, but also soluble components
What organelle separates DNA from the rest of the cell? The Nucleus
The nucear membrane has _____ that doesn't let DNA out of the nucleus. Pores
What is the concentration of DNA in a nucleus? The Nucleolus
What is Chromatin? DNA
What is continuous with the nuclear membrane and like a highway of the cell? The Endoplasmic Reticulum
What has ribosomes on it's surface and are mostly in cells that specialize in secreting proteins? Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
What are attached to the Rough ER and produce proteins? Ribosomes
What are ribosomes that are free floating in the cytoplasm? Polysomes
What does the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum do? It produces lipids and transports proteins from the Rough ER and to the Golgi Bodies.
What processes proteins and lipids that arrive from the ER and package them for shipment in vesicles? Golgi Bodies
_______ are membranous sacs that carry things from the Golgi Bodies to other parts of the cell. Vesicles
What is a group of related organelles? Cytomembrane System
In what organelle are biological molecules produced and stored and also sorts and shifts products to various locations? Vesicles
Vesicles move products _____ the cell and _______ them from the cell. within, export
What does 'Lyso' mean? What does 'somes' mean? Lysosomes? break apart, body Lysosomes digest whole cells or cell parts.
Autophagy self-eating
autolysis Auto means self, lysis means break apart -happens in babies(webbed fingers) and tadpoles(tail to feet)
What does a Lysosome do? Eats old Mitochondria Destroy Bacteria
Where is a lysosome made? In the Endoplasmic Reticulum
What detoxifies substances and disarms free radicals? Peroxisomes
What has a double membrane system that forms two compartments where aerobic respiration takes place? Mitochondria
What is the basis for the cell shape in Eukaryotic cells that allows cells and the organelles within to move? Cytoskeleton
What do centrioles form and where do they generally stay in relationship to the other organelles in the cell? -Spindle Fiber necessary for Mitosis, Cilia, and Flagella -By the nucleus
What are the hair like things that help the cell move? Cilia
What is the tail part of a sperm called and what does it do? Flagella and it helps it "swim"
What forces water out of the cell? by what process? Contractile Vacuoles Osmosis
What kind of animal cell junction holds cells together? Tight Junction
What kind of animal cell junction allows you to bend? Adhering Junction
What kind of animal cell junction is a hole between two cells? Gap Junction
What organelle converts sunlight energy into sugar? Chloroplasts
What is the fluid-filled organelle in plant cells? Central Vacuole
Chromoplasts have an abundance of what kind of pigment? Carotenoids
What kind of pigment has no pigmentation, store starch, and is found in potatoes? Amyloplasts
What is the term for the theory that mitochondria possibly evolved from ancient bacteria that were engulfed but not digested? Endosymbiosis
What is the capacity to do work or put an object in motion? Energy
What is kinetic energy? The energy of motion
What is potential energy? Stored energy
What forms of energy are directly utilized by the body? Chemical and Electrical
What forms of energy are indirectly utilized by the body? Mechanical and Radiant
How is energy used? It is converted from one form to another
What is the term for going towards disorder? entropy
Disorder happens spontaneously, where organization takes ______. energy
What is an example of electrical energy in the human body? Muscles, Nerves
What is an enzyme? What does it do? Made of? Biological Catalyst Reduces activation energy Proteins
Amylase is an enzyme that only works on ______. Starch
Enzymes are affected by what four factors? pH, temperature, oxidizing substances, and heavy metals
What is Adenosine triphosphate? ATP, the energy currency of the cell
What is aerobic respiration? Glucose + O2 ---> CO2 + H2O + ATP
What is aerobic respiration utilized for? Chemical Biosynthesis, Muscle Contraction, Nerve Impulses, and Active Transport
Anaerobic pathways begin with _____, are completed in the______, and ___ require oxygen. Glycolysis Cytoplasm Does NOT
Aerobic pathways start with _______, is completed in the ______, and requires _______. Glycolysis in the Cytoplasm Mitochondria Oxygen
Glycolysis starts with ____, uses __ ATP to make a 6-carbon diphosphate, broken into 2 3-carbon sugar phosphates, then ____ takes a(n) ___ from each side making 2 _________. Glucose 2 NAD H(or Hydrogen) Pyruvates
How much ATP does Glycolysis result in? What else does it result in? 2 net, 4 gross(used 2) NADH and 2 pyruvates
What does NADH do? Carries Hydrogen Molecules
What is pyruvate composed of? 3 Carbon Molecules
What happens during the step between Glycolysis and The Krebs Cycle? Pyruvate forms Acetyl-CoA NAD takes a Hydrogen Molecule CO2 is byproduct
How many times does the Krebs Cycle turn with each Glucose Molecule? How much ATP was formed? 2 4(2 during glycolysis)
Krebs Cycle starts with ________ which binds to the beginning molecule. 2 ___ are released and Hydrogen and electrons are picked up by ___ and ___ and ATP is formed. Acetyl CoA CO2 FAD NAD
In the electron transport system ___ and ___ are utilized and the electrons are passed through ______, ______ are moved across the membrane, and _______ produces ATP, and 02 uses H to make _____. NADH FADH2 Cytochromes Hydrogens ATP Synthase H20
How much ATP is produced in electron transport system? 32
Is fermentation aerobic or anaerobic? Anaerobic
Where does Lactate Fermentation take place? In Muscles
Where does Alcoholic Fermentation take place? In Fungi and Bacteria Beer, Wine, Bread Making
What is produced during Alcoholic Fermentation? CO2 and Ethanol
What are the four mechanisms of energy use? ATP, Creatine Phosphate, Glycolytic Energy System, Oxidative Energy System
What does creatine phosphate do? Transfers phosphates to make ATP
What is the Glycolytic Energy System and is it anaerobic or aerobic? Glycolysis, the break down of glucose Anaerobic
Which mechanism of energy use produces the most amount of energy? Oxidative Energy System
What is the photosynthesis equation? CO2 + H20 -sun-> C6H12O6 + H20 + O2
What is the synthesis of organic compounds from CO2 and H2O in the presence of chlorophyll using light energy? Photosynthesis
What is an autotrophic organism? Self-Feeding (Plants, Bacteria)
What is Glucose + Oxygen + Water---> CO2 + H2O? Aerobic Respiration
What is a heterotrophic organism? One that eats autotrophic organisms.
Chloroplasts have __ membranes. 2
What are the stack of coin looking organelles called? Thylakoids
What is inside the Thylakoids of a plant cell? chlorophyll
What is determined by the reflection and absorption of light? Color
The spectrum of wavelengths varies from short(______) to long(______). Gamma Rays Radio Waves
What is NAD when it is in plants? NADP
Light Dependent Pathway produces __ and __, and hydrogen and electrons are picked up by ____. Oxygen ATP NADP
The Calvin-Benson Cycle is a Light Dependent Pathway or Light Independent Pathway? Light Independent Pathway
What does the Calvin-Benson Cycle Produce from CO2? Sugar. (Sucrose, Starch, Cellulose)
In the Calvin Cycle, ___ is attached to a carrier compound, energy is donated by ___, Hydrogen and Electrons by ______. CO2 ATP NADPH
How many times does the Calvin Cycle turn for one Glucose Molecule and why? 6. There are 6 Carbons.
What organelle does aerobic respiration take place in? Mitochondria
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