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Chapter 2 Biology final
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
04/23/2013

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Term
What is energy?
Definition
the capacity to perform work
Term
The energy of motion is ______energy.
Definition
Kinetic
Term
The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed is known as____.
Definition
Conservation of energy
Term
A rock on the top of a mountain contains ____ energy.
Definition
Potential
Term
The region of an enzyme to which a substrate binds is called the ___ site.
Definition
active
Term
You are riding on your bike and stop pedaling, coasting along the road. Eventually, your bike slows down and stops. What happened to the energy of your motion when your bike stopped?
Definition
It was released as heat.
Term
Which of the following is a measure of disorder?
Definition
entropy
Term
Glucose molecules provide energy to power the swimming motion of sperm. In this example, the sperm are changing ____.
Definition
Chemical energy into kinetic energy.
Term
Humans convert approximately ____ of the energy stored in food to useful work.
Definition
40%
Term
What compound directly provides energy for cellular work?
Definition
ATP
Term
Which component of the following reaction is the substrate?
sucrose+sucrase+water-> sucrase+glucose+fructose
Definition
sucrose
Term
Substances that plug up an enzyme’s active site are____.
Definition
Enzyme inhibitors
Term
Energy is transferred from ATP to other molecules by transferring a(n)__.
Definition
Phosphate group
Term
Anything that prevents ATP formation will most likely____.
Definition
Result in cell death
Term
Usually, enzymes are___.
Definition
proteins
Term
The sum total of all the chemical reactions that occur in organisms is called ____.
Definition
Metabolism
Term
Diffusion is an example of ____.
Definition
passive transport
Term
Enzymes increase the rate of a reaction by _____.
Definition
decreasing activation energy
Term
Which of the following is most similar to the mechanism of an enzyme inhibitor?
Definition
keeping someone from parking by parking in their designated spot.
Term
An enzyme’s function is dependent on its ____.
Definition
shape
Term
Which component of the following reaction is the enzyme?
sucrose+sucrose+water->sucrase+glucose+fructose
Definition
Sucrase
Term
In a hypotonic solution, a plant cell will____.
Definition
become turgid
Term
Which of the following processes could result in the net movement of a substance into a cell, if the substance is more concentrated in the cell than in the surroundings?
Definition
active transport
Term
Diffusion_____.
Definition
proceeds until equilibrium is reached
Term
Facilitated diffusion across a biological membrane requires____ and moves a substance____ its concentration gradient.
Definition
transport protein…down
Term
Osmosis can be defined as___.
Definition
the diffusion of water
Term
A cell that neither gains nor loses water when it is immersed in a solution is ____.
Definition
isotonic to its environment
Term
______ is to eating as _____is to drinking.
Definition
phagocytosis…pin
Term
Certain cells that line the stomach synthesize a digestive enzyme and secrete it into the stomach. This enzyme is a protein. Which of the following processes could be responsible for its secretion?
Definition
exocytosis
Term
The act of a white blood cell engulfing a bacterium is____.
Definition
phagocytosis
Term
Relaying a message from a receptor protein to a molecule that performs a specific function within a cell is called___.
Definition
signal transduction
Term
photosynthetic organisms are____.
Definition
producers
Term
A horse eating some hay is an example of___.
Definition
a consumer eating a producer
Term
the waste products of cellular respiration include_____.
Definition
water and carbon dioxide
Term
plant cells____.
Definition
do not need mitochondria because their chloroplasts meet their energy needs.
Term
which of the following are produced during cellular respiration?
Definition
carbon dioxide, water, and ATP
Term
where in the cell does glycolysis occur?
Definition
cytoplasm
Term
A product of glycolysis is____.
Definition
pyruvic acid
Term
The second stage of aerobic respiration is____.
Definition
the citric acid cycle
Term
Electron transport takes place in the____.
Definition
mitochondria
Term
Which of the following is an autotroph?
Definition
pine tree
Term
aerobic cellular respiration generates about____ATP from one glucose.
Definition
38
Term
The term anaerobic means___.
Definition
without oxygen
Term
The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed is known as____.
Definition
conservation of energy
Term
When two solutions that differ in solute concentration are placed on either side of a selectively permeable membrane, and osmosis is allowed to take place, the water will___.
Definition
exhibit a net movement to the side with lower water concentration
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