Module #1 Flashcards
The process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings of the diversity of organisms living today..
Evolution
The scientific study of life.
Biology
The units of inheritance that encode the info necessary to build all of the molecules synthesized within a cell.
Genes
A tentative answer to a well framed question
Hypothesis
A substance consisting of tow or more diff elements combined in a fixed ratio
Compound
One type of subatomic particle that has one unit of positive charge.
Proton
Subatomic particle- negative charge
Electron
Have an affinity for water due to electrical attractions and hydrogen bonding. - water loving
Hydrophilic
Not easily mixed with water
Hydrophobic
Any member of a larger class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compound whose molecules contain carbon
Organic compound
A substance that has a molecular structure consisting chiefly or entirely of a large number of similar units bonded together.
Polymer
A molecule that can be bonded to other identical molecules to form a polymer.
Monomer
Any class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids and are essential part of all living organisms
Protein
A simple organic compound containing both a carboxyl and an amino acid group.
Amino acid
List the levels of hierarchy of life from the lowest/ smallest to the largest scale
Molecules, cells tissues organelles organs, organ systems, organisms , populations, communities, ecosystems, biosphere
