Download General Biology I Online – Lab Midterm REVIEW

General Biology I Online – Lab Midterm Review
Basic structure and function of life is the?
Steps of the scientific method? What is an experiment?
Know the hierarchical organization from smallest to largest.
What are the characteristics of living organisms?
What is the difference between a control and variable?
What is a hypothesis?
What is homeostasis and know examples.
Define population, community, ecosystem, biosphere.
Define taxonomy.
What are the three domains and list characteristics of each.
What makes up a binomial name? How is it written?
Define:
Matter
Element
Proton, Neutron, Electron. Where are they found?
Ph – What makes an acid and a base?
Buffer
What is an isotope and what is the isotope of carbon?
What is oxidation and reduction?
What are the three types of bonds, characteristics and examples?
Water molecules are attracted to other water molecules by what bonds?
What is the atomic mass and atomic number?
What is the valence shell?
When there is an unequal sharing of electrons between two atoms, what will be the
result?
What type of chemical bond occurs specifically between one hydrogen atom and one
oxygen atom in a water molecule?
Which term describes the tendency of water molecules to cling to other water
molecules?
What are the four major classes of macromolecules? Characteristics? What are the
building blocks of those? Example: Amino acids-> proteins
What is chitin?
What is hydrolysis, dehydration synthesis?
What causes denaturation of a protein? Examples?
The polysaccharide used in plants for support is?
What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats?
What polysaccharide is used by animals as the storage form of glucose?
List functions of proteins.
What base if found in DNA but not RNA? What bases pair with each other?
What type of bond holds amino acids together?
Organelles:
Nucleus
Nucleolus
Mitochondria
Golgi apparatus
Cytoskeleton
Lysomes
Endoplasmic reticulum
Ribosome
Chloroplast
Vacuole
Cell Wall
Examples of passive and active transport.
Diffusion
Osmosis is the diffusion of _________________?
Hypertonic, Hypotonic, Isotonic
Phagocytosis
Facilitated diffusion
Semipermeable membrane and concentration gradient
Define energy.
What does a catalyst do in relation to the activation energy?
Define entropy.
What are endergonic and exergonic reactions?
What are biological catalysts?
What do catalysts interact with?
What is the lock and key fit?
What is ATP?
What is metabolism?
What is anabolic and catabolic?
Most enzymes are what?
What are the two laws of Thermodynamics?
What is the formula for cellular respiration?
What are the three stages of respiration? Where do they take place? End products?
How many ATP are made in each stage of respiration?
What causes lactic acid?
The coenzyme electron carriers produced in the Krebs cycle are?
What is the formula for photosynthesis?
What products are produced in the light reaction and dark reaction?
Clusters of chlorophyll and accessory pigments are called_______________.
Each pigment molecule has a characteristic ________ spectrum.
How is light measured?
In which part of the chloroplasts are the Calvin cycle enzymes located?
From which molecule in photosynthesis is the oxygen derived?
What is another name for the Calvin cycle?
What are the pigments involved in photosynthesis?
Why do leaves change color?
Shortest wavelength and highest-energy photons within the visible spectrum; one of
the regions where chlorophylls absorb?
The molecules that convert extracellular signals into intracellular ones are
A small number of surface receptors can ultimately generate a large intracellular
response, as each step of the pathway is often expanded by signal ________.