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Levels of organization?

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atom,molecule,macromolecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, community, population, ecosystem, biosphere

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What’s incorrect about DNA?

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All forms of life are composed with cells with a membrane enclosed nucleus.

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3
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The main source of energy for producers in an ecosystem?

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sunlight

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4
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Lowest level of organization that is considered living?

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cell

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Which statement is incorrect regarding prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?

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Has to due with prokaryotic cells not having membrane bound organelles

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6
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What’s a type of protein that’s considered a catalyst?

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an enzyme

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What kind of feedback is regulation of the pancreas pertaining to blood glucose levels?

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negative feedback

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8
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Charles Darwin said organisms are adapted to their environment during descent with modification when the possess….?

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inheritable traits enhance the survival and reproductive success of those organisms

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9
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Atomic number and atomic mass (possibly into neutron number)?

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you subtract the atomic number and the atomic mass to find the number of neutrons.

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Atoms can’t react when their outer shells are full,

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meaning they are nonreactive

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11
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Know who gains and loses electrons during ionic bonds

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K loses an electron and CL gains an electron

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12
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What’s the difference between covalent and ionic bonds?

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Covalent is sharing electrons, ionic is losing or gaining electrons

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13
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How is one successful in an evolutionary sense?

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-To be most successful they must live short by offspring much

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14
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What theme(S) go along with evolution?

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all of the above

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15
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What is a control group?

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The group that does not receive what one is testing

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Know why a control group is important?

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You need something that doesn’t receive what you’re testing so you can compare it.

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17
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How do water’s bond with each other?

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hydrogen bonds

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18
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Know bond strengths? (Which is not a weak bond)

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Covalent is strongest to van der waals is the weakest

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19
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Hypothesis supported many times is a?

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Theory

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20
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All the chemical reactions involved inside a cell(s)?

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metabolism

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21
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Four most important elements everywhere?

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-carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen

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22
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What molecules have carbon?

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organic

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23
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Identify the dependent variable?

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Dependent variable is measurable change

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For a protein molecule in between two amino acids to form what has to be released?

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water

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25
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What kind of bonds are in between bonds in proteins like amino acids?

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-peptide

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26
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Term used for a change in shape in proteins, like damaging it?

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-denature

27
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3 parts of a nucleotide?

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-phosphate group, base, and a sugar

28
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What is a perimidine?

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-cytosine and uracil

29
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What is a purine?

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-guanine and adenine

30
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What bonds with cytosine?

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-guanine

31
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What is the cell theory?

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-Cells are the basic unit of life

32
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A term for the cell membrane?

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-phospholipid bilayer

33
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What type of transport is needed to move sodium in and out of the cell?

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-active transport

34
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How to move water in and out of the cell?

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-osmosis

35
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Noticeable difference plants and animal cells under a microscope?

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-cell wall for plants and it is green and is a box when animals are round

36
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What attracts sunlight in chloroplasts?

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-chlorophyll

37
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What qualifies as a specialized cells?

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-any type of cell that has a specialized purpose

38
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What is the process of going from higher to lower concentrations?

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-diffusion

39
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A large question.. What is the function of ribosomes.

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Make proteins

40
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Particular organelle for making oils, etc.

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Smooth ER

41
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Tay sachs disease. What organelle is dysfunctioning if its getting clogged up?

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Lysosome

42
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Liver has to break down certain poisons?

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Smooth ER

43
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Organelle in a plant that takes up a bunch of room?

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Vacuole

44
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Energy, what organelle?

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mitochondria

45
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Two cells have it’s own DNA?

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Mitochondria and Chloroplast

46
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Organelle has grana and thylakoid and stroma?

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Chloroplast

47
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Light energy to chemical energy?

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Chloroplast

48
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Organelle that’s responsible for structure of cell?

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Cell wall

49
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Fluid Mosaic Model, where are phospholipid?

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Inside of the membrane, they never go out

50
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What is the purpose of proteins and lipids?

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They help transportation

51
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What kind of molecules would be able to go through cell membrane the easiest? A carrier protein, what would be a characteristic when it talks about which molecule it prefers?

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for a certain type, only specific job. Smallest ones, hydrophobic

52
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What’s diffusion?

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In Passive Transport, High to Low Concentration

53
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What process has to use ATP?

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Active Transport. Potassium and Sodium

54
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Electron Transport and Kreb Cycle happen where?

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Mitochondria

55
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Correct formula for photosynthesis.

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6CO2+6H2O→ C6H12O6+6O2

56
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Where does respiration occur?

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Mitochondria

57
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Food Chain on Earth?

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Starts with Plants

58
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Definition of Thermodynamics?

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Energy

59
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What’s the source of energy for metabolism?

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ATP

60
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ADP and ATP?

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Phosphorylation

61
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Enzymes, turn on and turn off?

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Activator and inhibitor

62
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Which reaction in photosynthesis creates oxygen and ATP?

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Light Reaction and Dark reaction

63
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Step of cellular respiration that does not require oxygen?

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Glycolysis

64
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Name of cellular respiration that happens w/o oxygen?

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Anaerobic

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