Download Final review Unit 1 to Unit 3

Final review outline
Unit 0 scientific method/experiment
1. Be able to identify dependent variable, independent variable, and control variable
2. Know how to write a hypothesis (If… then… because…)
Unit 1
1. Atom structure: electron, proton, and neutron, atomic number, atomic mass. (Charges,
numbers)
2. Chemical bond: covalent bond, ionic bond, and hydrogen bond (How to form certain bonds).
Polar and non-polar covalent bond
3. Bohr and Lewis diagram
4. Properties of water
5. Organic and inorganic molecules: the differences
Functional groups (5 types, structure and name)
6. Biomolecules (monomer, dimer, hydrolysis, and dehydration reaction)
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Carbohydrate: basic chemical formula, functions
Structure of glucose
Three different types of polysaccharides: their structure and differences
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Lipid: functions and properties of lipid
a. Fatty acid: saturated and unsaturated fatty acid
b. Triglycerides (structure of Glycerol): functions
c. Phospholipids: function
d. Steroids: basic structure, and examples of steroids
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Protein: structure of amino acid, function of protein, peptide bond
Different level structure of protein
Protein synthesis: transcription and translation
Enzyme: function of enzyme, how does the enzyme work, examples of how enzyme do in
body
Denaturing
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Nucleic acid: two different types, and the functions, structure of Nucleotides
Structure of DNA (base pairing and antiparallel)
Unit 2
1. Characteristic of living things and cell theory
2. Cell structure: all the cell organelles’ functions and structures
3. Cellular respiration: three steps of cellular (input and output of the three steps), the chemical
equation of the cellular respiration
Aerobic and anaerobic
4. Mitosis: interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis (what happened for each phase), the relationship
between mitosis and cancer, check points
5. Cell transports: structure of cell membrane, function of cell membrane, what is homeostasis.
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Passive transport: the name of the three types passive transport, the similarities and
differences between those three transports, and how do they work
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Active transport: the name of the three types active transport, be able to describe how do
they work.
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Know the different between active and passive transport.
Unit 3
1. Photosynthesis:
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The chemical equation of the photosynthesis
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Be able to describe what happen during each step of the photosynthesis (input and
output).
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Why most plants are green?
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Why photosynthesis is important?
2. Plant structure
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Level of organizations (9 levels)
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Two parts of the plant: root system and shoots system
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Root system: two different types of root system, functions of the root
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Stem: the definition and functions of stem, be able to identify node, internode, and bud.
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Leaves: function of leaf, five basic parts of the leaves (Cuticle, Epidermis, Mesophyll
(palisade and spongy), Stomates, Veins)
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Special tissue:
o Epidermal/dermal tissue, functions
o Vascular tissue
o Ground Tissue
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Flower structure: male and female reproduction organ (name for each part)
3. Gas exchange
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Which part of the leaf will affect the gas exchange?
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How the water and nutrient transport in plant? Be able to explain how the water or
nutrients moves
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How geotropism and Phototropism affect the plant growth
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Know the different between Monocots VS. Dicots