Final Exam

Question 1

How does ATP provide energy to a cell?

Answer 1

It loses a phosphate group, releasing energy in the process.

Question 2

Two main fucntions of the rough endoplasmic reticulum?

Answer 2

Phospholipids and proteins secreted by the cell.

Question 3

1.6 What is it called when an atom or functional group tends to attract electrons (or electrons density) towards itself?

Answer 3

Electronegativity.

Question 4

Which macromolecule is a sugar and provides a major source of energy for daily activities?

Answer 4

Carbohydrate

Question 5

What are the four main elements that make up living matter?

Answer 5

Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen

Question 6

What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane where no energy is required called?

Answer 6

Osmosis

Question 7

Which process in Eukaryotic cells will proceed normally whether oxygen is present or not?

Answer 7

Glycolysis

Question 8

Are trace elements needed in big or small doses?

Answer 8

Small

Question 9

Which macromolecule has a sugar phosphate backbone?

Answer 9

Nucleic Acid

Question 10

What is the main difference between saturated and unsaturated fats?

Answer 10

Unsat contain carbon to carbon double bonds, but saturated fats don’t.

Question 11

under 7 on the ph scale is acidic or basic?

Answer 11

acidic

Question 12

What is the pigment known to play a direct role in photosynthesis by absorbing light called?

Answer 12

Chlorophyll a

Question 13

What bonds cause water molecules to be attracted to each other?

Answer 13

Hydrogen

Question 14

What is it called if a white blood cell engulf a baterium?

Answer 14

Phagocytosis

Question 15

What kind of molecule forms a bilayer that is the basis for all cellular membranes?

Answer 15

Phospholipid

Question 16

What is the monomer/building block of a protein molecule?

Answer 16

Amino Acids

Question 17

Microtubules, microfilaments, and intermediate filaments compose what part of the cell?

Answer 17

Cytoskeleton

Question 18

What are the products of the light reactions of photosynthesis that are utilized in the Calvin Cycle?

Answer 18

ATP and NADPH

Question 19

A statistically significant result is…..

Answer 19

unlikely due to chance events.

Question 20

Where in photosynthesis does CO2 enter?

Answer 20

The Calvin Cycle

Question 21

Which organic molecule is resonsible for storing and transmitting hereditary information?

Answer 21

nucleic acids

Question 22

small nonpolar hydrophobic molecules such as fatty acids _____ _____ through a _____’s ______ _______

Answer 22

easily pass through a membranes lipid bilayer.

Question 23

What are the pores on the epidermis of a plant known as

Answer 23

Stomata

Question 24

What do lysosomes do and do not do?>

Answer 24

They recycle organellese and shit but they do not synthesize preoteins.

Question 25

When a solution doesnt have as much of the solution as the area surrounding the solution it is known to be

Answer 25

Hypotonic (meaning lacking)

Question 26

Which vitamin do you need to ifght scurvy?

Answer 26

Vitamin C

Question 27

1.3 Because the electrons in a water molecule are shared unequally between hydrogen and oxygen, water is said to be what kind of bond?

Answer 27

Polar

Question 28

A molecule that is composed only of chains and rings of hydrogen and carbon is called a what?

Answer 28

HYDROCARBON.

Question 29

What is the term for all chemical reactions in an organism?

Answer 29

metabolism

Question 30

What is the type of bond where one or more electron are transferred from one to another?

Answer 30

Ionic

Question 31

During cell resp. NADH does what?

Answer 31

Delivers its electron load to the first electron carrier molecule

Question 32

1.8 What is the substance found in a cell called that helps maintain pH balance?

Answer 32

Buffer

Question 33

What is the main function of the cell membrane?

Answer 33

Selective Permeability

Question 34

Table sugar belongs to which category of nutrients?

Answer 34

Carbohydrates

Question 35

Where does the citric acid cycle occur?

Answer 35

The mitochondrial matrix.

Question 36

Oxygen is relead from what part of photosynthesis?

Answer 36

Light Reaction

Question 37

How much water should we drink every day?

Answer 37

3 L

Question 38

Why is there complexity and variety in organic molecules?

Answer 38

Because carbon atoms are chemically versatile.

Question 39

over 7 on the pH scale is acidic or basic?

Answer 39

basic

Question 40

What are the stages of cellular respiration and put them in their correct order?

Answer 40

Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation

Question 41

1.2 What is the bond where electrons are shared equally?

Answer 41

Nonpolar covalent bond

Question 42

What kind of molecule forms the bilayer that is the basis for all cell membranes?

Answer 42

Phospholipids

Question 43

The transfer of a phosphate group to a molecule or compound is called \_\_\_\_\_

Answer 43

Phosphorylation

Question 44

\_\_\_\_ is to somatic cells as haploid is to \_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 44

Diploid/gametes

Question 45

What kind of bonds hold the atoms of a single water molecule together?

Answer 45

Polar covalent bonds

Question 46

What is found in the nucleus of an atom?

Answer 46

Protons and Neutrons

Question 47

A centriole is exclusively found in plants

Answer 47

False. the chloroplast dough