Download Study Guide for Fall Final

Study Guide for Fall Final
Chapter 1
 What is the study of life called?
 What are the smallest units that can carry on life functions called?
 Living things are composed of ______________.
 Give an example of a scientific observation.
 What is a hypothesis?
Chapter 2
 What is an isotope?
 What is an ion?
 What is polar?
 Why is water so important to us and what about its structure makes it unique?
 What are the 4 macromolecules? Be able to recognize examples and know what
their building blocks are.
 What is the difference between a saturated and unsaturated fat?
 What is a monomer? What is a polymer?
 What is an enzyme and what does it do?
 Explain what activation energy is and what an enzyme does to it.
 What factors affect enzyme activity?
 What is a substrate?
 Know and be able to recognize products and reactants in a chemical reaction.
 What is meant by lock and key model in relationship to enzymes?
 Why do we need enzymes?
Chapters 3,4,and 6 - See ecology review from the ecology test. Page 96 in notebook.
Chapter 7
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Know the basic structure of the cell membrane. If given a diagram you could
label it.
Know which part of the phospholipd likes water and does not like water.
Know what passive and active transport are.
Know the 4 types of transport we have covered and be able to recognize them and
what they do and how they work and if they are passive or active.
Know the difference between hyper, hypo and isotonic solutions and which way
water would move given a problem that gave you solute concentrations.
Know what a sodium-potassium pump is.
Know what Endocytosis, Exocytosis and Phagocytosis are.
Know what homeostasis is.
Be able to recognize the organelles in the cell and know what they do.
Know the difference between a plant and animal cell.
Know the cell theory.
History of the cell (Robert Hooke, etc.)
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Know the difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote.
What structures do all cells have?
What are the basic functions of these organelles.
What is the differences between animal and plant cells.
Chapter 10
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Why are cells small?
When the volume of a cell increases, what happens to the surface area?
What molecule contains the information needed to direct all the activities of a
cell?
Where in a cell are prokaryotic chromosomes found? eukaryotic chromosomes?
Does cell division in bacteria take place in the same way as it does in eukaryotes?
Explain.
In what stage do cells spend most of their life cycle?
A new nuclear envelope develops during cell division in what stage?
In what stage do chromatids separate from each other?
How does the number of chromosomes in newly divided cells compare with the
number of chromosomes in the original cell?
In order for DNA to fit into a cell, what must be done to compact it?
What is a centromere?
Bacteria reproduce by a method known as _____________ ______________.
Chromosomes are arranged along the equator of a cell during which stage of cell
division?
Be able to recognize sketches of the stages of mitosis.
What happens during cytokinesis in a plant cell and animal cell?
Homologs separate during ________________.
What is the purpose of mitosis?
What happens in the stages of mitosis and the cell cycle?
What is cancer?
What is a stem cell? What is is used for?
Websites.
Biomes - http://www.mbgnet.net/
Cells - http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_main.html
Mitosis - http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm
Cell, cell membrane and mitosis - http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html
Enzymes - http://w3.dwm.ks.edu.tw/bio/activelearner/06/ch6intro.html
All areas reviewed - http://bio-alive.com/