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| Which part of a cell is responsible for keeping harmful materials out of the cell? |
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| Which of the following functions do cells carry out in organisms? |
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| contains genetic info, provides structure, and extracts energy from moelcules |
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| Which cell probably has the most mitochondria? |
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| Animal cells are eukaryotic. What are distinguishing features of every eukaryotic cell? |
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| Fungi, plants, and animal cells are all what type of cells? |
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| Soil bacteria are what type of cells? |
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| If a rabbit inherits the dominant allele for brown fur (B) and the recessive allele for white fur (b), what will it's phenotype be? |
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| If the green-pod plant and a yellow-pod plant are crossed, what percentage of the offspring will likely have green pods? |
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| If the sequence of nucleotides on one strand of a DNA molecule is CCGTTAG, what is the sequence on the complementary strand? |
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| Name the parts of a DNA nucleotide. |
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| What prevents the chromosome number of a species from doubling each generation? |
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| What is the material that controls heredity in almost every living thing on earth? |
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| New cells form when existing cells do what? |
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| Which of the following lists the stages of mitosis from the beginning in the correct order? |
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| prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase |
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| What is a group of one type of cells working together to perform a certain function? |
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| The heart helps pump blood. What are the lungs and the heart all examples of? |
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| What are cell structures that store genetic information? |
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| What is best described as the coded instructions for a trait? |
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| What are both egg and sperm cells formed by? |
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| A parent cell has 24 chromosomes. After meiosis, how many chromosomes will the cells produced have? |
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| What should a scientist trying to decide whether a molecule is RNA or DNA test for the presence of? |
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| What is the shape of DNA commonly referred to as? |
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| What is the process of an organism passing on traits to its offspring called? |
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| What are trees, roses, and corn examples of? |
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| What is the key to the study of biology? |
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| learning about life around us |
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| What is the part of an experiment in which all conditions are kept the same? |
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| What are the steps commonly used by scientists in gathering information to test hypothesizes and solve problems? |
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| What is the SI unit you should use to measure the height of a building? |
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| When using a Bunsen burner to heat a test tube containing a liquid, in what direction should you point this test tube? |
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| away from others in the lab |
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| What is a structured procedure for collecting info to test a hypothesis? |
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| What are all living things made of? |
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| What makes living things change during their lives? |
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| List the main ideas of the Cell Theory. |
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a. made of cells
b. cells are the basic unit of life
c. cells come from other cells |
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| Who was the scientist the first described living cells as seen through a simple microscope? |
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| Because the phospholipid molecules and some proteins are free to move, what is the plasma membrane said to be? |
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| What is the structure most responsible for maintaining cell homeostasis? |
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| Water moves out of a cell if the cell is placed in what type of solution? |
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| When water moves into a cell when placed in what kind of solution? |
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| What is a testable explanation for a question or problem? |
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| What is the control center of the cell? |
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| What makes the ribosomes in the cell? |
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| What is responsible for storage of materials? |
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| What packages and transports material out of the cell? |
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| What maintains homeostasis by regulating the movement of material into and out of the cell? |
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| What must a cell be if it contains a nucleus? |
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| What are organisms, such as plants, that make their own food called? |
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| What are organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy from the foods they eat called? |
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| What are the three parts of an ATP molecule? |
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| adenine, ribose, phosphate |
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| What is released from ATP when a phosphate group is removed? |
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| What uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high energy sugars? |
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| In the overall equation for photosynthesis, what do six molecules of carbon dioxide result in? |
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| Plants take in the sun's energy by absorbing what? |
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| Why are most plants green? |
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| because chlorophyll doesn't absorb the green light |
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| What is another name for the Calvin Cycle? |
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| light independent reaction |
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| Which of the following is the correct sequence of events in cellular respiration? |
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| glycolysis->Krebs cycle-> electron transport chain |
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| Cellular respiration uses one molecule of glucose to produce how many ATP molecules? |
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| What is the equation for cellular respiration? |
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| 6O2 + C6 H12 O6 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy |
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| Cellular respiration releases energy by breaking down what? |
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| What are the reactants in the equation for cellular respiration? |
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| What is the starting molecule for glycolysis? |
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| What are the two main types of fermentation? |
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| alcoholic and lactic acid fermentaion |
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| What is one cause of muscle soreness? |
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| Which process is used to produce beer and wine? |
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| What kind of process is cellular respiration called because it requires oxygen? |
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| In eukaryotes, where does electron transport occur? |
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| Photosynthesis is to chloroplasts as cellular respiration is to... |
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| Unlike photosynthesis, what occurs in all eukaryotic cells? |
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| The products of photosynthesis are the what of cellular respiration? |
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