Bio1-10

Question 1

Anatomy and Physiology.

Answer 1

The human body and how it functions.

Question 2

Cytology

Answer 2

The study of cells.

Question 3

.Genetics

Answer 3

The study of genes and heredity.

Question 4

Microbiology

Answer 4

The study of microscopic organisms.

Question 5

Biology

Answer 5

The study of life.

Question 6

Botany

Answer 6

The study of plants.

Question 7

Ecology

Answer 7

The study of how organisms relate to one another.

Question 8

Zoology

Answer 8

The study of animals.

Question 9

What is the polarity of water?

Answer 9

Each water molecule has a positive charge on one side and a negative charge on the other.

Question 10

Why is water the universal solvent?

Answer 10

many substances can dissolve into water because of its weak magnetic bond.

Question 11

Why do we use the scientific method?

Answer 11

We use the scientific method in Biology to answer questions about living things.

Question 12

Bias

Answer 12

To favor one point of view over another.

Question 13

Spontaneous generation

Answer 13

the mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.

Question 14

Biogenisis

Answer 14

The production of living organisms from other living organisms.

Question 15

How many amino acids are there?

Answer 15

20 different amino acids.

Question 16

Atoms.

Answer 16

The building blocks of life.

Question 17

Carbohydrates

Answer 17

1. Compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
   2 Gives energy to living cells.
2. Provides structure to things like plants, fungi, and insects.

Question 18

What are the building blocks of life?

Answer 18

Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids.

Question 19

Carbon

Answer 19

1) An essential element for life.
2) Has 6 protons and 6 neutrons meaning its outer shell has 4 electrons.

Question 20

Cell

Answer 20

The smallest living organism, the building blocks of life.

Question 21

Chemistry

Answer 21

The study of matter.

Question 22

Cholesterol

Answer 22

What cell membranes are made up of.

Question 23

Covalent bond

Answer 23

The force between 2 or more atoms sharing electrons in their valence shell.

Question 24

Atoms are made up of…

Answer 24

Protons, neutrons, and electrons.

Question 25

Electron shells

Answer 25

The areas in an atom where an electron exist, orbiting the nucleus.

Question 26

Valence shell

Answer 26

The outermost electron shell in an atom.

Question 27

Valence electrons

Answer 27

The electrons in the valence shell.

Question 28

Octet Rule

Answer 28

Most elements are most stable with 8 electrons in their valence shell.

Question 29

Ion

Answer 29

An atom with a positive and negative charge.

Question 30

Ionic bond

Answer 30

The force connecting a positive charged atom with a negatively charged one.

Question 31

Polor bonding

Answer 31

The force between new elements in a color molecule.

Question 32

Non-polor bonding

Answer 32

When the electrons are evenly distributed among the atoms in a molecule.

Question 33

Chemical reaction

Answer 33

When atoms come together to make a molecule, or when a molecule breaks up separate atoms.

Question 34

Reactants

Answer 34

The atoms that come together to form a molecule in a chemical reaction.

Question 35

Product

Answer 35

The molecule that results from reactants coming together.

Question 36

The first law of thermodynamics states that...

Answer 36

Matter cannot be created or destroyed.

Question 37

The second law of thermodynamics states that...

Answer 37

Given enough time, everything wears out and falls apart.(Entropy)

Question 38

Organic Chemistry

Answer 38

A study of the common elements that make up living things and the chemical compounds produced by living things.

Question 39

Nucleus

Answer 39

The center of an atom comprised of protons and neutrons.

Question 40

What are nucleic acids made of?

Answer 40

nucleotides, which form DNA and RNA:the code of a cell.

Question 41

Where are nucleic acids found?

Answer 41

In the nucleus of a cell.

Question 42

Enzyme

Answer 42

A type of protein that changes the rate of a chemical reaction.

Question 43

What are proteins and what do they do?

Answer 43

50 or more amino acids linked together. 1) Proteins form the structure of tissues and organs. 2) Proteins carry out chemical reactions in the body. 3) Proteins act as chemical messengers.

Question 44

Fatty acids

Answer 44

A long carbon with hydrogen atoms bonded with the chain.

Question 45

How are lipids used?

Answer 45

For energy, insulating cells, and protecting cells.

Question 46

Steroids

Answer 46

Are made of 4 carbon wings with a tail and are chemical messengers.

Question 47

Element

Answer 47

Pure substance that consists of entirely one atom

Question 48

Matter

Answer 48

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

Question 49

Active transport

Answer 49

Using energy to move molecules from a lower to a higher concentration.

Question 50

Autotroph

Answer 50

Producers that make their own food.

Question 51

Calvin cycle

Answer 51

The process by which plants produce glucose for food.

Question 51

Chlorophyll

Answer 51

A green pigment responsible for absorbing light, found in clusters in the thylakoid membrane.

Question 52

Consumers

Answer 52

Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.

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Grana

Answer 53

Stacks of thylakoids.

Question 54

Heterotroph

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Consumers: Organisms which depend on other organisms for food.

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Light-dependent phase

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The first phase of photosynthesis; the process by which plants convert energy from sunlight into ATP.

Question 56

Producers

Answer 56

Organisms that produce their own food.

Question 57

Stroma

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A fluid-filled area around the grana.

Question 58

Thylakoid

Answer 58

Specialized disks in the chloroplasts.

Question 59

Aerobic Respiration

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When cells use glucose and oxygen to produce energy.

Question 60

Alcoholic fermentation

Answer 60

a) Occurs in plants and fungi b) Pyruvate from glycolysis goes through a chemical process that produces alcohol and carbon dioxide.

Question 61

Anaerobic cellular respiration

Answer 61

Producing energy without using oxygen.