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04/05/2011

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Term
Passive Transport
Definition
Diffusion across a biological membrane
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Active Transport
Definition
Moves solutes against concentration gradient.
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Diffusion
Definition
Any spread of molecules from an area of high concentration to low.
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Facilitated Diffusion
Definition
Diffusion with the help of a transport protein.
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Three types of Endocytosis
Definition
Phagocytosis, Phinocytosis, and Receptor-mediated Endocytosis
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Pinocytosis
Definition
Engulfing of fluid in membrane vesicles.
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Osmosis
Definition
Diffusion of water across a selectvely permeable membrane, from hypotonic to hypersonic solution.
Term
Transport molecules need ATP to funtion
Definition
Active Transport
Term
Receptor-mediated Endocytosis
Definition
Enables cell to engulf bulk quantities of a specific large molecule.
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Passive Transport
Definition
How oxygen and carbon dioxide enter and leave the cell.
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Two types of Passive Transport
Definition
Osmosis and Facilitated Diffusion
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Phagocytosis
Definition
Engulfing a molecule in membrane vesicle
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Exocytosis
Definition
Fusion of a membrane-bound vesivle with membrane, and dumping of contents outside the cell.
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Phagocytosis
Definition
How a cell might capture a bacterium
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Helped by aquaporins
Definition
Osmosis
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Kinetic Energy
Definition
Energy in motion
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Potential Energy
Definition
stored energy
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Exergonic Reactions
Definition
Exports materials out
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Endergonic Reactions
Definition
Takes in substances
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Photosynthesis
Definition
Sunlight to chemical energy.
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Cellular Respiration
Definition
Converts chemical energy into an energy the cell can use.
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First Law of Thermodynamics
Definition
Energy is not created or destroyed; constant
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Second law of Thermodynamics
Definition
When energy is changing, disorder happens; unavailable.
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Electrons
Definition
The cell transfers energy by shuttleing electrons from molecule to molecule.
Term
Hydrogen Ions
Definition
Engergy is released in the electron transport chain and they are pumped across a membrane.
Term
ADP
Definition
ATP + inorganing phosphate = ADP
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Oxidative Phosphorilation
Definition
Involves the electron transport chain and a process called chemiomosis.
Term
Oxidation
Definition
The loss of an electron
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Is reduced during Cellular Respiration
Definition
Oxygen
Term
Reduction
Definition
The gain of an electron.
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NAD
Definition
A coenzyme used to carry electrons in redox reactions.
Term
Chemiomosis
Definition
A process wehre most cells make most of their ATP via a process that involves an electron transport chain.
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Dehydrogenase
Definition
An enzyme that strips hydrogen atoms from organic molecules.
Term
ATP Synthesis
Definition
Protein complex that uses energy from a gradient of ion concentration to make ATP.
Term
Phosphorilation
Definition

Adding a phosphate group to ADP to make ATP.

 

Phosphorilation = ADP + Phosphate Group = ATP

Term
Oxidized
Definition
Glucose is oxidized during cellular respiration.
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NADH
Definition
NAD+ picks up an electron + Hydrogen to = NADH
Term
Intermediate
Definition
Compound formed as glucose is changed to pyruvic acid
Term
Energy Payoff Phase
Definition
Steps in glycolysis that produce ATP and pyruvate
Term
Glucose
Definition
Fuel molecule broken down in glycolysis.
Term
ATP
Definition
Produced by substrate-level phosphorilation.
Term
Invested to energize glucose molecule at start of process of Glycolysis
Definition
ATP
Term
NAD1
Definition
Sunstance that is reduced as glucose is oxidized.
Term
Pyruvate
Definition
Glucose is converted into 2 molecules of pyruvate
Term
Preparatory Phase
Definition
Steps in glycolysis that consume energy.
Term
Glycolysis
Definition
"The Splitting of Sugar"
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NADH
Definition
Carries hydrogen and electrons from ocidation of glucose
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Substrate-level phosphorilization
Definition
When an enxyme transfers a phophate from a substrate to ADP
Term
Not involved in Glycolysis
Definition
Oxygen
Term
Water
Definition
is oxidized in the process of photosynthesis
Term
Cloroplasts
Definition
The cell organelle where photosyntheses takes place.
Term
Thylakoids
Definition
Light catching membranes in chloroplasts
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Electromagnetic
Definition
Energy travels through space as rythic waves.
Term
Grana
Definition
Stacks of thylakoids in chloroplasts
Term
Stroma
Definition
The fluid of chloroplasts where the Calvin cycle occurs
Term
Stromata
Definition
Pores where carbon dioxide enters.
Term
Chlorophyll
Definition
The green picment in a leaf.
Term
Photosystem
Definition
A cluster of light-harvesting complexes in a thylakoid.
Term
Photon
Definition
A fixed quantity of light energy.
Term
Photosynthesis
Definition
The process wehre plants make food from carbon dioxide and water
Term
Wavelength
Definition
What the color of light is related to
Term
Carbon Fixation
Definition
The incorporation of carbon dioxide into organic compounds.
Term
Autotrouph
Definition
Organism that makes its own food from inorganic molecules
Term
Metaphase Plate
Definition
Chromosomes come to rest here during metaphase
Term
Kinetochores
Definition
Where spindle microtubules attach to choromosomes.
Term
Sister Chromotids
Definition
Pulled apart by spindle microtubules
Term
Spindle Microtubules
Definition
Move chromosomes
Term
Centrosome
Definition
Material around centrioles from which mitotic spindle grows.
Term
Motor Protiens
Definition
"Walk" chromosomes along microtubules toward cell poles.
Term
Gene
Definition
A unit that determines heritable charachteristics
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True-breeding
Definition
Varieties that always produce offspring identical to parents
Term
Hybrid
Definition
The offspring of 2 different varieties
Term
Recessive
Definition
When 2 alleses of a pair differ, the one that is hidden
Term
Character
Definition
A feature that varies amond individuals such as flower color.
Term
P generation
Definition
Parent organisms that are mated
Term
Punnett Square
Definition
A diagram that shows possible combinations of gametes
Term
Monohybrid
Definition
A breeding experiment that uses parents different in one charachter
Term
Allele
Definition
One of the alternative versions of a gene for a character
Term
Phenotypic Ratio
Definition
Relative numbers of organisms with various traits.
Term
Heterozygous
Definition
An organism that has 2 different alleles for a gene
Term
Trait
Definition
Each variant of a character, such as a purphe and a white flower color.
Term
Genotype
Definition
An organism's genetic makeup
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Segrigation
Definition
Separation of allele pairs that occurs during gamete formation
Term
Cross-
Fertilization
Definition
Fertilization of a plant by pollen from a different plant
Term
Homoxygous
Definition
An organism that has 2 identical alleses for a gene
Term
Locus
Definition
The LOCation of a gene on a chromosome
Term
Phenotype
Definition
What an organism looks like; its expressed traits
Term
Dominant
Definition
When 2 alleles of a pair differ, the one trait that determines appearance.
Term
Homologous Chromosomes
Definition
Where the 2 alleles for a certain character are located
Term
Nucleotide
Definition
The basic chemical unit of a nucleic acid
Term
DNA
Definition

The "transprming factor" that alters pneumonia bacteria

 

*One kind of nucleic acid

Term
The 2 kinds of Nucleic Acids
Definition
DNA and RNA
Term
The 3 parts of a Nucleotide
Definition
Sugar, Phosphate, and Base (nitrogenous)
Term
The 4 bases of DNA
Definition
Adenine, Cytoside, Guanine and Thymine
Term
Sugar
Definition
Ribose in RNA and a Dioxyribose in DNA
Term
The DNA base complemintary to Thymine
Definition
Adenine
Term
The DNA base complemantary to G
Definition
Cytosine
Term
E. coli
Definition
A bacterium attacked by T2 phages
Term
Eukaryotic chromosomes consist of:
Definition
DNA and protein
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