Final review semester one Flashcards

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Over the last 4 billion years, how has oxygen changed In earth atmosphere?

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The amount of oxygen has increased

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Biosphere

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Living organisms

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Atmosphere

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Air and clouds

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Geosphere

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Solid earth

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Hydrosphere

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Water

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How do scientist know how oxygen levels have changed over deep time?

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They discovered ancient plants, photosynthesis, 02, bacteria

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As oxygen levels accumulated in the atmosphere what effect did this have on the biosphere?

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Moore and larger animals

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While using oxygen is not a characteristic of living things, it is connected to one specifically which is this and why?

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Requiring energy cellular respiration

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What are the four major macromolecules?

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Carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acid’s, proteins

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What is a monomer?

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Hey single unit that makes up macromolecules are polymers

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What is the major role of carbohydrates in living organisms?

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Carbohydrates are used for energy storage

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What is the major role of nucleic acid’s in living organisms?

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Nucleic acid store genetic information

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What is the major role of fatty acids in living organisms?

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Fatty acids create cell membrane

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What is the major role of amino acids?

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Amino acids make structures and enzymes

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15
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Fatty acids are the monomer that make what macromolecule?

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Lipids

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16
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Nucleotides are the monomer that make what macromolecule?

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Nucleic acid’s

17
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Amino acids are the monomer that make what macromolecule?

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Proteins

18
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Monosaccharides are the monomer that make what macromolecule?

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Carbohydrates

19
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What is the relationship between the food we eat and ATP?

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Food has glucose which gives ATP energy

20
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What is the role of enzymes?

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They speed up chemical reactions and break things down

21
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What is osmosis?

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The diffusion of water molecules only

22
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What is the diffusion?

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When things move from high concentration to low concentration

23
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What do we call it when glucose enters the cell through a channel protein?

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Facilitated defusion

24
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When water and oxygen travel between the inside of the cell and the outside of the cell they cross the

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Phospholipid bilayer

25
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List three examples of how the body maintains homeostasis

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Shivering to produce heat

Throwing up to remove poisons you might have eaten

Sweating to cool the body through evaporation

Sneezing to get back to area and viruses and foreign material out of your nose