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An attraction between 2 atoms resulting from a sharing of outter shell electrons or opposite charges on the atoms
Strong chemical bond in which two atoms share one or more pairs of valence electrons
Sharing of two pairs of valence electrons by two atoms
Weak chemical bond formed when a slightly positive hydrogen atom of a covalent bond is atteacted to the slightly negative of a polar covalent bond in another molecule
Weak attractions between molecules or parts of molecules that result from localized charge flucuations
Number of protons in an atom
Hydrogen Bonding to Properties of Water (change definition later)
Bonding of like molecules, often hydrogen
Attraction between different kinda of molecules
Evaporative loss of water from a plant
Causes water to change less wheb absorbing or loosing heat
The heat that must be reached for 1g of a liquid to become a gas
The process in which the surface of an object becomes cooler during ecaporation, owing to a change of the molecules with the kinetic energy from the liquid to the gaseous state
Water forms hydrogen bonds
Acids 0-7 Bases 7-14
Minimizes changes in pH, important in bodies, small pH changes can kill an organism
Has the ability to form complex bonds, can create long chains
With two carbohydrates an H is taken out of 1 and an OH out of the other so the two can form together
An OH(-) and a hydrogen cation are added to the two carbon atoms binded together
The metabolic breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones
Metabolic process what simple substances are synthesized into complex materials
Insulation, energy storage
Storage and nutrients
Heredity, code for amino acid sequence
Enzymes, form and function, protein synthesis
Specific sequence of amino acids
Localized repetitve coiling or folding of the polypeptide backbone of a protein due to hydrogen bond formation between constituents of the backbone
Irregular contertions of a protein molecule due to interactions of site chains involved in hydrophobic interactions, ionic bonds
Shape of a complex aggregated protein defined by the characteristic three demensional arrangements of its constituent subunits, each a polypeptide
Don't have- Mitochondria, nucleus, ER, lysosomes, golgi apparatus, vacuoles Has- Flagella, circular DNA/RNA, small ribosomes Smaller then Eukaryotes
Has- Mitochondria, nucleus, ER, lysosomes, golgi apparatus, vacuoles (in plants), chromosomes, large ribosomes Larger then Prokaryotes
Cell wall (rectangular shape), chloroplast, large vacuole, plastids
Centrioles, lysosomes, small vacuoles (if present), only has cell membrane (irregular shape)
Nucleus, cytoplasm, ER, ribosomes, mitochondria, golgi apparatus, microtubules
The genetic information (DNA) is found here
Thick liquid between cell membrane holding organells
Protein synthesis happens in the ER, ribosomes are attached to the ER's wall
Storage organelle, has no ribosomes
Cells power producer, converts energy into forms that are usable by the cell
Used for the final stages in the synthesis of proteins that are to be secreted from the cell
Hollow rods, functioning primarily to help support and shape the cell
Line up the chromosomes inside the cell and then they pull the chromosomes apart during cell replication
Break up waste and cellular debris, in animal cells
Contains food, water or waste, in plant cells, sometimes in animal cells
Tough extracellular structure of plant cells that distinguishes them from animal cells
Made up of thylakoids (flattened interconnected sacs) and stroma (fluid outside thylakoids), conducts photosyntheses, found only in plant cells
Cells that store specific things, found only in plant cells
Solution is the same on either side of a membrane, no net movement
Solution loses water to its enviroment, cell started with more water then its enviroment
Gains water from its enviroment, started with less water then its enviroment
1) the active site is unoccupied and substrate is available 2) substrate enters the active site 3) an enzyme/substrate (ES) complex forms 4) substrate is converted to product 5) product is released 6) the active site is available for more substrate
Temperature, pH, enzyme concentration, substrate concentration and inhibitors
Target cell detects signaling molecule from outside cell, molecule binds to receptor protein
Converts the signal to a form that can bring about a specific cellular response
Transduced signal triggers specific cellular response
Cell sucide, signal can be sent to cells if it starts to reproduce out of control
Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinasis
DNA has replicated but not yet formed chromosome
DNA forms chromosomes
Spindle fibers attach to centromeres and align chromosomes
Centromere splits and sister chromitid are pulled to opposite ends of the cell
Nuclear envelope forms, spindle fibers disintegrate
Cell splits apart
A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from glucose without an electron transport chain and produces a characteristic end product
The catabolic pathways of aerobic and anareobic respiration which breaks down organic molecules for the production of ATP
Glycolusis breaks down glucose into pyruvate which continues into the Krebs Cycle
The process by which energy is stored into a H+ ion, gradiation is used to drive cellular work
Light energy is transfered to pigments, which then become excited pigments. The excited electrons are accepted by the primary electron acceptor and send into an electron trandport chain into photosystem I, pigment P680
Light pigments excite the electrons in photosystem I which are accepted by the primary acceptor, P700. From there the excited electrons are sent through a series of redox reactions. NADP+ is turned into NADPH
how does the electron flow in light reactions result in the formation of atp nadph and o2 (copy later)
Molecule that provides energy for all cellular activities
Calvin Cycle (put in real definition later)
In C4 plants the Calvin Cycle is seperated from the other reactions, in CAM their stoma only opens at night
Process by which a single parent reproduces offspring that are genitically identical to the parent
A typre of reproduction in which two parents give rise to offspring that have unique combinations of genes inherited from the gametes of the parent
Homolgous Chromosomes (copy later)

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