examen sep-oxt Flashcards

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The variety of life around the earth.

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Biodiversity or biological diversity

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A particular type of living things that can reproduce by interbreeding among them.

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Species

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Is the scientific study of all forms of life

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Biology

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4
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Is any individual living thing

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organism

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5
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Is the basic unit of life

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cell

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Are all the living things and all the places they are found on Earth.

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Biosphere

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Are all of the chemical processes that make up or break down different materials.

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metabolism

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8
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the genetic material of all organisms

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deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA

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an organized group of related parts that interact to form a whole

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system

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is a physical environment with different species that interact with one another and with nonliving things.

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Emcosystem

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the maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism

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homoestasis

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12
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is the change of living things over time

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Evolution

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13
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An inherited trait that gives an advantage to an individual organisms and is passed to future generations.

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Adaptation

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14
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is using our senses for studying the world

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observation

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15
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observations can also be recorded as ___________

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Data

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16
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Is a proposed answer for a scientific question

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hypotesis

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17
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In ___________ scientists study factors called dependent and independent variables

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experiments

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18
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is an experiment condition that is manipulated by a scientist

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independent variable

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19
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are observed and measured during the experiment

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dependent variables

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20
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the conditions that do not change during an experiment

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constant

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21
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is a proposed explanation for a wide range of observations

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theory

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22
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is an attraction between slightly positive hydrogen atom and slightly negative atom often oxygen or nitrogen

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hydrogen bond

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23
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what are the 3 important properties of water made by hydrogen bonds?

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adhesion,cohesion and, high specific heat

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24
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is the attraction among molecules on a substance

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cohesion

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is the attraction of molecules on different substances
adhesion
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what is the conditions for ions and molecules for taking part of chemical reactions on a cell?
that they can dissolve on water
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is a mixture of substances that is the same throughout
a solution
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is the one that is in greater amount and that dissolves the other
the solvent
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is the amount of solute dissolved in a certain amount of solvent
solution's concentration
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is a compound that releases a proton
an acid
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are the substances that remove H+ ions of a solution
bases
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how are the solution's acidity or H+ ion concentration measured
by the Ph scale
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how is usually called the carbon atom?
the building block of life
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why its so important carbon atom?
because its atomic structure gives it bonding properties that are unique among elements
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what are the 3 fundamental structures of the carbon atoms?
straight chains,rings, and branched chains
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how is called the subunit of a complete molecule?
monomer
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is a large molecule or a macromolecule made of many monomers bonded together
polymers
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are the 4 types of carbon based molecules
carbohydrates,lipids,proteins,and nucleic acids
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is a molecule made of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen
carbohydrates
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what are the most basic carbohydrates?
simple sugars and monosacchrides
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are nonpolar molecules that include fats oils and cholesterol
lipids
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in what consists both vegetal oils and fat oils
on glycerol
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are chains of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms
Fatty acids
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in what consists a phospholipid
an of glycerol fatty acids an a phosphate group
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is a lipid that has a ring structure
cholesterol
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is a part of cell membranes and your body uses it for make chemicals named steroid hormones
cholesterol
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are the most varied of the carbon based molecules in organisms
proteins
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is a polymer made of monomers called amino acids
proteins
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amino acids form covalent bonds called ______________
peptide bonds
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through peptide bonds amino acids are linked into chains called ________________
polypeptides
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is one or more plypeptides
a protein
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the specific sequence of amino acids determines _______________________
protein's structure and function
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where are detailed instructions for building proteins stored?
in extremely long carbon based molecules called nucleic acids
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what are the 2 general types of nucleic acids?
DNA and RNA
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when does the compound microscope was invented and who unvented it?
in late 1500's | Zacharias Jenssen
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when by who and how were the cells discovered?
in 1665 by Robert Hooke examining slices of cork with a three lens compound microscope
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who invented a one lense microscope more powerful than Hook's
Leeuwenhoek
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What made Leuweenhoek rather than making that powerful microscope?
he was one pf the first person who described the LIVING cells
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who and when proposed that plants were made of cells?
Matthias Schleiden in 1838
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who and when proposed the cell theory?
by Theodor Schwann in 1839
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by who and when was reported that cells come from other cells?
in 1855 by Rudolf Virchow
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what are the principles of the cell theory?
All organisms are made of cells All existing cells come from other living cells The cell is the most basic unit of life
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by what is enclosed the cell and controls the movement of materials in and out of the cell?
the cell membrane
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is a jelly-like substance that contains dissolved molecular building blocks
cytoplasm
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are structures specialized to perform distinct processes within a cell
organelles
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how can be speared the types of cells
in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
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the type of cell that do not have any organelle
prokaryotic cell
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it does have a nucleus or any other organelle
eukaryotic cell