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| What organisms are considered producers? |
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| Plants and other photosynthetic organisms |
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| The lowest level of structure that can perform all the activities required for life. |
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| What 3 domains do scientists group all living things? |
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| Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya |
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| The unity and diversity of life. |
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| A hypothesis must have what two characteristics? |
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| Testable and falsifiable. |
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| What are organic molecules? |
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| Which reaction makes polymers? |
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| How are polymers broken down? |
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| What are the simplest carbohydrates? |
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| What is the most important monosaccharide for our cells? |
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| Common table sugar (glucose + fructose) |
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| What polysaccharide is used for storage in plants? |
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| What is the most abundant molecule on Earth? Also a structural polysaccharide. |
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| What structural polysaccharide is used in insect exoskeletons? |
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| What is the main function of fats? |
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| What lipids are solid at room temperature? |
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| What type of lipids important for cellular membranes? |
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| What lipids have a ring structure and can serve as hormones? |
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| What lipids can be hazardous to ones health? |
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| What are proteins made of? |
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| What is a proteins primary shape? |
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| What is a proteins secondary structure? |
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| What is a proteins tertiary |
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| What are nucleic acids made of? |
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| Where is the genetic material of the cell located? |
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| What organelle makes proteins? |
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| What organelle is important for lipid synthesis and calcium storage? |
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| What organelle finishes, sorts, and ships cell products? |
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| What organelles carry out cellular respiration? |
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| What are membranes a fluid mosaic of? |
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| Phospholipids and proteint |
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| What is not required for passive transport? |
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| What is active transport? |
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| The only way to move solutes against their concentration gradient. |
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| What is cellular drinking? |
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| What is energy defined to do? |
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| What is potential energy? |
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| What is the type of potential energy found with the bonds of molecules? |
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| What is the first law of Thermodynamics? |
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| Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. |
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| What type of reaction releases energy? |
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| What type of reaction requires an input of energy? |
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| What catalyzes cellular respiration? |
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| What does an enzymes substrate bind to? |
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| What type of inhibitor binds to the active site of an enzyme? |
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| What is the first step of cellular respiration? |
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| Where does the citric acid cycle (Krebbs cycle) take place? |
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| The majority of ATP is made during what stage of cellular respiration? |
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| Oxidative Phosphorylation |
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| If there is no oxygen available, what happens to pyruvate after glycolysis? |
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| What do NAD+ and FADH carry to the oxidative phosphorylation step? |
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| What are a pair of duplicated chromosomes called? |
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| What is the longest phase of the cell cycle? |
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| During metaphase, what do the chromosomes line up along? |
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| The stage when the actual cell splitting occurs. |
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| What is the first checkpoint in the cell cycle control system? |
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| What is the name of the process in prophase 1 of meiosis where pieces of homologous chromosomes trade places? |
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| What is the difference between Prophase 2 and Mitosis? |
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| Prophase 2 starts with haploid cells? |
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| Genetic diversity is increased due to crossing over and what two processes? |
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| Independent Orientation of Chromosomes and Random Fertilization |
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| Different versions of a gene |
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| A photographic inventory of an individuals chromosomes. |
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| What is the chromosomal abnormality in down syndrome? |
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