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Biology Test 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
09/13/2013

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The atom that represents the greatest weight in the human body is
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oxygen
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Radioactive isotypes have an excess amount of
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neutrons that atoms of the same element
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Examples of substances with a pH of 6 or lower
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Bread, cola beverage
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A disaccharide called sucrose is composed of:
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a molecule of fructose and a molecule of gluclose
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Which vegetable oil is known to have a higher % of saturated fatty acids?
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Coconut Oil
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Lactose is a
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disachharide
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Polynucleotides are
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bases of genetic information
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Amino acids make up
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polypeptides
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Organisms designated as producers obtain their energy from
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the sun
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the instructions for grown and development are in
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DNA
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Which is the smallest unite of life that can survive and reproduce on its own?
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Cell
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Each cell is able to maintain a constant internal envirnment. This is called
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homeostasis
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The ability to acquire, store, transfer or utilize energy is called
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metabolism
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All of the various species living in the same area
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community
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About 12 to 24 hours after the last meal, a person's blood sugar level nomrally varies from 60 to 90 milligrams per 100 milliliters of blood, although it may rise to 130 mg/100 ml after meals high in carbohydrates. That the blood sugar level is maintained within a fairly narrow range despite uneven intake is due to the body's ability to carry out
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homeostatsis
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which group includes all of the other groups?
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phylum
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A scientific name consists of which of the following
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genus name and species designation
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the first explanation of a problem, sometimes called "an educated guess"
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hypothesis
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(matching) multicellular producers
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Plantae
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(matching)unicellular organisms of considerable internal complexity
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Protista
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Which of the domain(s) are made up of organisms without nuclei?
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both Archaea and Bacteria
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A mutation is a chance in
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hereditary instructions
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Which is the smallest portion of a sunstances that retains the properties of an element?
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atom
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the atom that represents the greatest weight in the human body is
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oxygen
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the negative subatomic partilce is the
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electron
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All atoms of an element have the same number of
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protons
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The nucleous of an atom contains
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neutrons and protons
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The atomic weight (or mass) of an atom is determined by the weight of
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neutrons and protons
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Radioactive isotopes
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have an excess number of neutrons
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For an atom to be neutral it must have the same number of
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protons and electrons
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What is formed when an atom loses or gains an electron?
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Ion
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Cellular pH is kept near a value of 7 due to the action of
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buffers
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The three most common atoms in your body are
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Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
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the atom disgnostically associated with organic compounds is
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carbon
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Amino acids are the building blocks for
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lipids
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the formation of large molecules from small repeating units is known as what kind of reaction?
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condensation
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The breakdown of large molecules by the ensyatic addition of water is an example of what kind of reaction?
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hydrolysis
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What substance is the most common in cells?
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cardohydrates
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Sucrose is composed of
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a molecule of fructose and a molecule of glucose
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Cellulose is
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a material found in plant cell walls
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Consumption of partially phyrogenated vegetable oil is associated with which health problems?
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Diabetes, heart attack, high cholesterol, atherosclerosis
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Protiens may function as
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structural units, hormones, storage molecules, transport molecules
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Glycogen is a polysaccharide used for energy storage by
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bacteria
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Triglycerides are
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fats
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Steroids are
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compounds that are related to lipids, sex hormones, components of membranes, troublesome on walls of arteries
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The nucleotide most closely associated with energy is
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NAD
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These cells do not have a nucleus. There is no separation between their DNA and the rest of the cell (give examples)
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prokaryotic cells
Ex: Bacteria, archaea
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Lipids
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greasy or oily compounds, readily dissolve in one another, but not so in water
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Which of the following is not a component of all cells?
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nucleus
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Prokaryotic cells do NOT have
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mebrance-bound nuclei
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Which of the following structures is large enough to be seen under a light microscope?
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chloroplast
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Organelles composed of a system of canals, tubes, and sacs that transport molecules inside the cytoplasm are
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endoplasmic reticula
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These are the primary structures for the packaging of cellular secretions for export from the cell.
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Golgi bodies
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Cell part responsible for maintaining cell shapre, internal organization, and cell movements is the
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cytoskeleton
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An organelle found in the nucleus is a
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nucleolus
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these are the primary celllular sites for the production of proteins
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ribosomes
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This organelle's apperance has been likened to a stack of pancakes
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Golgi body
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These contain enzymes and are the main oranelles of intracellular disgestion
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lysosomes
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Plasmodesmata are
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cross connections between plant cell walls
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Mitochondria (function)
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cellular respiration
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Lysosomes (function)
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intra cellular digestion
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Chloroplasts (function)
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photosynthesis
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Ribosomes (function)
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protein synthesis
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true or false A plasma membrance is selectively permeable which means it allows only certain materials to pass through
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true
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Biology
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the scientific study of life
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Organisms
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any living creature
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taxon (pl: taxa)
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a group of organisms (ex: group of same kind of trees)
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Autotrophs
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self-feeders; make their own food; producers
ex: plants, algae
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chlorophyll
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pigment found in chloroplast
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Heterotrophs
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feed on other organisms, consumers
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molecule (DNA, protien)
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a group of atoms
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organelle
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made up of molecules
ex. nucleus, chloroplast
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population
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a group of individuals
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community
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different populations in the same area
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ecosystem
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communities plus envirnment
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biosphere
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the whole earth
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"pro"
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early/first/beginning
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"karyo"
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nucleous
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prokaryotes
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organisms that doesn't have a well-definied nucleous
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eukaryotes
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organism that has a well-defined nucleous
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Name the 3 domains
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Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
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Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: ?
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Archaebacteria
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: ?
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Eubacteria
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"eu"
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true
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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdoms: ?
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Prosita, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
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Kingdom Protista
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algae, amoeba, unicellular, both autotrophs and heterotrophs
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Kingdom Fungi
Definition
mold, mushrooms, heterotrophs
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Kingdom Plantae
Definition
plants, autotrophs
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Kingdom Animalia
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animals, heterotrophs
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Dumb King Philip came over for good soup.
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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Molecular biology
Definition
study of the structure and function of biologial macromolecules
ex. protein
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Cell biology
Definition
study of cell structure and biology
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Taxonomy
Definition
classification and naming
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Genetics
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the science of heredity
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Zoology
Definition
the study of animals
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Botany
Definition
the study of plants
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anatomy
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study of internal structure
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physiology
Definition
study of plant/animal function
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ecology
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study of the interaction of living organiams with one another and with their envirnment
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matter
Definition
anything that takes up space and mass
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element
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a substances that cannot be broken down into other substances
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must abundant elements
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carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
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Most hydrogen and oxygen is in the form of
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water
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_____ is the most omportant structural element in living organisms
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carbon
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trace elements (and examples)
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elements required by organiams in minute quantities
ex: boron, iron, copper, iodine
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uses for radioative isotopes in biology
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tracers, diagnostic tools in medicine, to date fossil records
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compound
Definition
substance comsisting of 2 or more different elements in a fixed ratio
ex. glucose
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Mixture
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two or more intermindled in proportions that can vary
ex. lemonade
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solution
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a liquid mixture
ex. lemonade
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pH
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a measure of the concentration of hyrogen atoms
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organic compounds found in cells
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dissolved sugars, fatty acids, animoacids and nucleotides
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the most abundant biological molecule
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carbohydrates
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carbohyrdates
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the most abundant biological molecules, composed of many sugar unites, all cells use them as tructural materials;
transportable packets of energy
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Three class of carbohydrates
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Monosaccahrides, disaccarides, polysaccarides
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Disaccarides
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made of 2 monomers of sugar
ex. lactose, sucrose, maltose
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Polysaccides
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made of many monmers of sugar
ex. starch, cellulose, glycogen, chitin
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monosaccahrides
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made of one monomer of sugar
glusoe, fructose, galactose
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saccahrides
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sugar
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lactose
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glucose and galactose
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maltose
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glucose and glucose
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unsaturated fat
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vegetable oils, liquid at room temp
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unsaturated fat
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solid at room temp
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proteins
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large biological polymers, consist of one more more chains of aminoacids
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aminoacids form
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polypetides
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structural proteins
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form the sructural element of hair, nails and bones
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Four major organic compounds
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Carbohydrates, Lipids, Protiens and nucleic acids
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nucleic acids
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chains of units or a single unit that each consists of a 5pcarbon sugar, at least one phospate and a nitrogen containing base
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ATP
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nucleic acids; has three phosphate groups
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basis of inheritance and cell reproduction
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nucleic acids
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