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Seven properties of life

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Order
Reproduction
Growth and development
Energy processing
Response to the environment
Regulation
Evolutionary adaptation
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Life hierarchy order. List from the broadest category to the category “organ”.

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Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Organism
Organ system
Organ
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Fungi

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Organisms who decompose other dead organisms and organic waste, absorbing nutrients into cells

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Animal is

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Ingest other organisms

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Plantae

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Photosynthesize

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6
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Archaea?????

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Prokaryotic cells, mostly favour very extreme conditions: salty lakes, boiling hot springs

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Theory (2 points)

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A substantiated and widely-accepted MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION of natural phenomena.

Subject to testing, revision, and refutation.

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Natural law

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Describes events in nature that occur the same way every time under certain conditions.

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Hypothesis

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Proposed explanation for a set of observations

Must be experimentally testable, ie. falsifiable!!

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Alternative name for independent variable

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Experimental.

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Alternative name for dependent variable

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Responding

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12
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What’s an isotope?

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Form of an element with same number of protons but different number of neutrons.

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Let’s say u have the isotope 14C. How may protons, neutrons, and electrons does it have?

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Protons: 6
Neutrons: 14-6 = 8
electrons: same as protons; 6

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What property does a reactive atom have? (Tbt high school chemistry)

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An incomplete valence shell.

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On the periodic table of elements, which is the most reactive group of elements?

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1

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16
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Name some elements from group 1 and group 8.

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1: hydrogen, lithium, sodium
8: helium, neon, argon

17
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Valence

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The bonding capacity of an atom…the # of electrons required to fill its valence shell. Hydrogen has a valence of 1.

18
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Covalent bond

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2 atoms sharing 1+ pairs of outershell electrons.

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Ionic bonds:`

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2 atoms transferring electrons, resulting in formation fo ions with opposite charges that are attracted to each other.

20
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Which bonds are intramolecular

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Ionic And covalent

21
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Which bonds are intermolecular

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Hydrogen

22
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What kinda protein structure do hydrogen bonds have

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2* (auxiliary)
B-pleated sheets
Alpha helices

23
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Dehydration reaction is _____ used in ______ of polymers

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Loss of h20 molecule

Formation of reactions

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hydrolysis is the _______ during the ____ of a polymer.

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Gaining of an H2O molecule during breakdown fo a polymer.

25
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Phospholipids: which part is hydrophobic and which part is hydrophilic?

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Hydrophilic HEAD

Hydrophobic TAIL.

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What’s the plasma membrane made out of?

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Phospholipid bilayer

27
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Outer part of prokaryote

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CAPSULE

28
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Little bb hairs on prokaryotic cell that aren’t flagella

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FIMBRIAE

29
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Weird nucleus in prokaryote

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NUCLEOID REGION