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Biology A Study
Biochemistry
Question: A carbon atom can have a maximum of how many single covalent bonds?
Answer: 4
Question: Which element is found in proteins, but NOT in Carbohydrates or Lipids?Carbon - Hydrogen - Nitrogen - Oxygen
Answer: Nitrogen
Question: What are the six most common elements in organic compounds? HINT: teeth
Answer: N CHOPS
Question: What are the 4 biomolecules?
Answer: Carbohydrate, lipid, nucleic acid, protein
Question: What substance is known as a cellular road sign? What purpose does it serve?
Answer: carbohydrate chain, tells other cells its intended function
Cells
Question: How do organisms grow larger? (in relations to cells)
Answer: increasing their number of cells.
Question: What is the word used to describe when an enzyme becomes unusable or dies?Name 2 reasons this might happen
Answer: Denature
High heat, high pH (basic), Low pH (acidic)
Question: What is the name for the cell membrane referring to it being a combination of many things?Name at least 2 of the components to the cell membrane
Answer: Fluid mosaic
Carbohydrate, phospholipid, cholesterol, proteins
Question: What organelles or characteristics differentiate plant cells from animal cells? Name 3
Answer: Plants- Cell wall, chloroplasts, large central vacuoleAnimals - fluid cell membrane, centrioles
Question: What is the name for when water leaves the cell and the membrane become wrinkled?What is the name for when the cell takes in so much water it bursts?
Answer: CrenateCytolysis
Photosynthesis
Question: The source of the Oxygen released in photosynthesis is...
Answer: Water (after it has gone through photolysis)
Question: Which 2 products of photosynthesis become reactants in cellular respiration?
Answer: Glucose and Oxygen
Question: Where do the light reactions take place? Dark reactions?
Where does Fermentation occur? Krebs cycle?
Answer: Thylakoid , Stroma
Cytoplasm, Mitochondria
Question: What powers the ATP synthase pump? Where did it come from?
Answer: H+ ions, from the photolysis or H2O
Question: Write the equations for photsynthesis and respiration
Answer: Photosynthesis - H2O + CO2 ---> O2 + C6H12O6
Respiration - C6H12O6 + O2 ----> H20 + O2 + ATP (energy)
Mitosis
Question: These are produced by bacteria and certain fungi in order to reproduce even after enduring harsh conditions.
Answer: Endospores
Question: How are stem cells different from normal body cells and why are they important to medical research?
Answer: They are undifferentiated (not specialized) and can become almost any type of cell. They can be used to grow tissue for damaged organs/cells.
Question: When chromosomes are not correctly separated during Meiosis. Name 1 disorder this could result in
Answer: Nondisjunction
Any chromosome related disorder
Question: The process by which a cell divides into 2 identical daughter cells is...List the abbreviation for its stages.
The process by which a cell divides into 4 non-identical daughter cells is...
List the abbreviation of its stages
Answer: Mitosis - PMAT
Meiosis - PMAT 1, PMAT 2
Question: Name 3 sources of genetic variation
Answer: Independant assortment, crossing over, random fertilization
Genetics
Question: Who was nicknamed the "Father of Genetics"? and what plant did he study?
Answer: Gregor Mendel
Pea Plants
Question: What is the name for having ONE extra or ONE missing chromosome?
Answer: Aneuploidy
Question: If 2 Heterozygous individuals are crossed, what percent of their offspring will also be heterozygous?
Answer: 50
Question: Cross the following and give the genotypic ratio.
Aabb x aaBb
Answer: 1/4 AaBb1/4 Aabb
1/4 aaBb
1/4 aabb
Question: See overhead
Answer: