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Test 2
Chapters 5, 6, 7
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
03/02/2014

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What is energy?
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  • the capacity to cause change
  • ability to rearrange a collection of matter
  • used to perform work
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What are the forms of energy?
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  • Kinetic
  • Potential
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How are the two types of energy different?
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  • Potential is stored energy
  • Kinetic is energy in motion
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Principle of "conservation of energy"
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  • Machines and organisms can transform kinetic energy to potential energy
  • In all such transformations, total energy is conserved.
  • Energy cannot be created or destroyed
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What is Entropy?
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What is heat?
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Is chemical energy a form of kinetic energy or potential energy?
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What is cellular respiration?
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What is the difference between a calorie and a "Calorie" of food?
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What is ATP?
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Why is ATP important to living things?
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How does ATP provide energy?
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What is metabolism?
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What is an enzyme?
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How doenzymes speed up chemical reactions?
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Are enzymes used up or are thry able to be reused multiple times?
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What is the substrate?
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What is the active site?
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What is induced fit?
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How do enzyme inhibitors work?
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What is the job of transport proteins in the plasma membrane of a cell?
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What is diffusion?
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What is passive transport?
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What is the difference between diffusion and a passive transport?
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What is facilitated diffusion?
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What is osmosis?
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Does water move or do molecules of solute move?
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What does hypertonic mean?
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What does Hypotonic mean?
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What does isotonic mean?
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Be able to identify what direction water will move and what will happen to a cell if placed in any one of the above types of solutions
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What is osmoregulation?
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Do plants do best in an isotonic or hypotonic environment?
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What is active transport and how does it differ from passive transport?
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What is exocytosis?
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What is endocytosis?
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What is phagocytosis?
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What is pinocytosis?
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What is an Autotroph?
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What is a heterotroph?
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What is a producer?
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What is a consumer?
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What is cellular respiration and how is it different yet related to breathing?
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Know that plants can do BOTH photosynthesis and cellular respiration; but animals can ONLY do cellular respiration
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What is the chemical equation for cellular respiration?
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What is a redox reaction?
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What is reduction?
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What is oxidation?
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What gets oxidized in cellular respiration?
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What gets reduced in cellular respiration?
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What molecule acts as the electron acceptor/ carrier in cellular respiration?
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Oxygen
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What are the 3 main stages of cellular respiration, where do they occur, and how many ATP does each stage produce?
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What are the products of glycolysis?
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What are the products of the Citric acid cycle from 1 glueclose molecule?
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About how many ATPs total are produced by cellular respiration?
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Is glucose the only molecule that can be used by cellular respiration?
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What is fermentation?
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What is aerobic respiration?
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What is anaerobic respiration?
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How many ATP does fermentation produce?
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What product is produced in human muscle cells as a result of fermentation?
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What type of fermentation do yeast carry out? How is this type of fermentation beneficial to humans?
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What is photosynthesis?
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Where does the energy for photosynthesis come from?
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What do plants produce from light energy?
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What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
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Who carries out photosyntheseis?
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Thylakoid membranes, stroma, grana, stomata, chlorophyll, chloroplast
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What molecule is split by light energy to provide electrons for photosynthesis? What is produced as a waste product of this molecule being split?
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What are the 2 main stages of photosynthesis?
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Chloroplasts use ______ energy to make _______ energy.
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What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
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The longer the wavelength, the ________ energy it has.
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The shorter the wavelength, the ________ energy it has.
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What is viible light?
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What are the 3 pigments in green leaves that aid in capturing light for photosynthesis?
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Why is it beneficial for a plant to have multiple types of pigments?
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What is a photon?
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How do electrons produce fluorescence?
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What is a photosystem?
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What are the 2 photosystems in the thylakoid membranes?
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What do the photosystems do with electrons from water when a photon of light excites the reaction center?
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Know the terms reaction center and primary electron acceptor
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Know the pathway that an electron takes as it is split off of water, goes through photosystem I, through the electron transport chain, to photosystem II to NADPH.
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Where does the light reaction occur in a chloroplast?
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What does the chloroplast produce at the end of the light reaction?
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What does the chloroplast produce at the end of the light reaction?
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What is the job of the calvin cycle?
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Where does the calvin cycle take place in the chloroplast?
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What does the calvin cycle use? What does the calvin cycle produce as an end product?
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What is the difference between C3 plants, C4 plants and CAM plants?
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