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Biology
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/18/2009

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What do all living things have in common
Definition
organic composition
Carbs, Proteins, Lipids (fats), Nucleic Acids
Term
How are all living things interdependent
Definition
They rely on each other to live.
Term
interdependent hierarchy
Definition
sun-> producers-> consumers -> Decomposers
Term
producers
Definition
make own food (plants and some bacteria)
Term
consumers
Definition
Eat other things for food
(animals)
Term
decomposers
Definition
don't make food
chemically dismantle things
(bacteria and Fungi)
Term
In what ways can chromosomes be changed structurally? What are the outcomes of each?
Definition
Deletion: loss of a chromosome segment
Duplication: extra gamete segment
Translocation: segment breaks off and is inserted into different chromosome
Inversion: segment breaks off and reinserts in same place but in reverse direction.
Term
How can a chromosome number be changed in an offspring?
Definition
caused by non-disjunction. (when one or more chromosomes fail to separate in Meiosis). 2 ways: homologous chromosomes fail to pull apart during Anaphase I OR sister chromatids fail to pull apart during Anaphase II.
Term
What are examples of human disorders resulting from abnormal chromosome numbers?
Definition
Downs Syndrome (called Trisomy for having 3 21st chromosomes)
Term
What is Metabolism and what does it do for a cell?
Definition
How cells transfer and use energy for all of the processes of life such as activities that build, store, and breakdown substances
Term
How does a cell control all of the metabolic reactions needed to sustain life?
Definition
Use metabolic pathways: sped up with enzymes, large substances broken down into smaller, lower energy products
Term
What is the structure and function of enzymes? What do they do and how do they work? What affects them?
Definition
Proteins that act as chemical catalysts. They speed up the process of metabolic reactions (without being consumed). Affected by cell environment such as: cell temperature and PH.
Term
What is the ultimate source of energy for living things? How do living things get energy? How do they store it?
Definition
Source: Sun. Get energy by consuming. Stored: don't know. organic tissues maybe.
Term
What is ATP? Why is it so important in metabolism?
Definition
Energy carrier. important to metabolism because it supplies all the energy needed to metabolize.
Term
How do substances move across membranes? What are the processes? What affects the passage?
Definition
Plasma membrane selects what comes in and out. Processes: Endocytosis, Exocytosis, Active Transport, or Diffusion. Affected by size. All requires energy.
Term
What are the properties of membranes?
Definition
Made up of lipids and proteins. protects the inner cell.
Term
What is Osmosis? How does it work? Why is it so important to cells?
Definition
diffusion on water through a semi-permeable membrane. important because it allows any solvent to dissolve in a cell.
Term
What is Diffusion? How does it work?
Definition
process by which molecules spread from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration
Term
organization of living things
Definition
molecule->cell->tissue->organ->organ system->indiviual->population->community->ecosystem->biome->biosphere
Term
five kingdoms (examples)(what defines)
Definition
monera(bacteria)(very different), protista(one cell org)(can eat or photo), plantae(plants)(photosynthesize), fungi(mushrooms)(decompose), animalia(animals)(eat all things)
Term
scientific method
Definition
question, observe, hypothesize, predict, test, accept/reject, go back to testing of necessary.
Term
why is hypothesis different from theories
Definition
theories come from a hypothesis that cant be tested.
Term
cell theory
Definition
-all living things are composed of cells
-cell is basic unit of organization
-all cells come from preexisting cells
Term
two major cell types
Definition
-eukaryotic (found in animals, plants fungi and protists..have NUCLEUS)
-Prokaryotic (found in Bacteria.. DONT have Nucelus)
Term
what organelles within cells
Definition
plasma membrane, cytosol/cytoplasm, nucleus, ribosome, chromatin, endomembrane system, mitochondria, chloroplasts (only in plants)
Term
plasma membrane
Definition
protection for cell
Term
cytosol/cytoplasm
Definition
liquid part of cell
Term
nucleus
Definition
where DNA is stored
Term
ribosomes
Definition
"Factories" that make proteins
Term
chromatin
Definition
DNA and Proteins
Term
endomembrane system
Definition
ER (membrane channel distributes proteins), golgi body (accepts new protein), lysosome (digestive proteins)
Term
mitochondria
Definition
where energy is realeased from food
Term
chloroplasts
Definition
unique to plant cells, performs photosynthesis
Term
why is cell division important
Definition
they are constantly dying, divide to make you grow, maintainence and repair, reproduction
Term
nuclear division vs. cytokenesis
Definition
nucleus and DNA divide vs. cytoplasm and ALL contents divide
Term
what cells do mitosis and meiosis occur
Definition
mitosis - somatic cells (body cells)
meiosis - only in GERM cells (which become SEX cells)
Term
stages of mitosis and meiosis
Definition
prophase (DNA splits), metaphase (poles become established), anaphase (poles pull), telophase (DONE)
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