13968285028 | Endocytosis | process by which a cell takes material into the cell by infolding of the cell membrane | 0 | |
13968285029 | pinosytosis | cell taking in liquid | 1 | |
13968286923 | phagocytosis | cell taking in solid | 2 | |
13968289425 | receptor-mediated endocysotis | requires receptors | 3 | |
13968295678 | Parts of a prokaryote | They do not have a nucleus. Cell membrane Cell wall (sometimes) Cytoplasm Ribosomes Nucleoid (with single naked circular DNA molecule). Other possible parts include cilia, flagella, pilli (for exchanging genetic material), plasmids. | 4 | |
13968303626 | Is water polar or non-polar? | polar | 5 | |
13968303627 | Polar | Molecule with partial charges. | 6 | |
13968306817 | Hydrogen bonds | Very weak bonds; occurs when a hydrogen atom in one molecule is attracted to the electrostatic atom in another molecule | 7 | |
13968306818 | Cohesion | Attraction between molecules of the same substance | 8 | |
13968308249 | Adhesion | An attraction between molecules of different substances | 9 | |
13968314839 | Is water cohesive or adhesive? | both | 10 | |
13968321028 | categories of carbohydrates | monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides | 11 | |
13968334210 | Bonds for amino acids | Peptide bond, through hydrolysis | 12 | |
13968338553 | Saturated | All single bonds so max amount of hydrogen | 13 | |
13968344871 | Unsaturated | Atleast one double bond, not max number of hydrogen | 14 | |
13968355681 | Bonds for Carbs | Glycosidic linkage | 15 | |
13968357639 | Bonds for lipids | ester bonds | 16 | |
13968364500 | Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food. | 17 | |
13968366239 | Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food | 18 | |
13968412005 | What can get across the membrane? | Small, nonpolar, hydrophobic | 19 | |
13968419956 | Gibbs free energy equation | ΔG = ΔH - TΔS | 20 | |
13968446995 | Parts of Photosynthesis | light reactions and calvin cycle | 21 | |
13968446996 | Light reactions | Using H+ from H2O and light energy to pump across the electron transport chain to make ATP and NADPH | 22 | |
13968455035 | Calvin cycle | Use ATP and NADPH from light reaction to make G3P during carbon fixation | 23 | |
13968463377 | Where are the light reactions? | Thylakoid membrane | 24 | |
13968466565 | Where is the calvin cycle? | Stroma | 25 | |
13968493097 | Parts of cell respiration | Glycolysis, formation of acetyl CoA, kreb cycle, oxidative phosphorylation | 26 | |
13968554682 | Glocolysis | In cytoplasm Uses glucose Makes 2 net ATP and 2 net pyruvate 2 NADH formed | 27 | |
13968581605 | Making Acetyl CoA | On the way to the mitochondria Makes 2 Acetyl-CoA 2 NADH formed | 28 | |
13968589999 | Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle) | In matrix of mitochondria Uses acetyl-CoA Makes 2 ATP, 6 NADH and 2 FADH2 | 29 | |
13968620094 | oxidative phosphorylation (chemiosmosis) | In inner mitochondrial membrane Uses all NADH and FADH and O2 and ETC to pump H+ across membrane (against concentration gradient) so they can come back in through ATP synthase and power it to make ATP, by product is joined with O2 to make water Net 30 ATP | 30 | |
13969719431 | Nonsense mutation | Makes a stop codon | 31 | |
13969721069 | Missense Mutation | Changes amino acid | 32 | |
13969723332 | Silent mutation | doesn't change amino acid | 33 | |
13969739297 | Oncogene | cancer causing gene | 34 | |
13969739298 | tumor suppressor genes | make proteins that stop cell division and kill cells | 35 | |
13969755161 | Gamete | Sex cells | 36 | |
13969757408 | Zygote | fertilized egg | 37 | |
13969781576 | recombination | a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents | 38 | |
13969791294 | recombination frequency | the percentage of recombinant offspring among the total (recombinatints/total) | 39 | |
13969808139 | homologous structures (divergent) | similar structures in different species that point to a common ancestor | 40 | |
13969811553 | analogous structures (convergent) | similar structures that evolved independently that are similar due to the environment | 41 | |
13969830119 | Directional selection | One extreme | 42 | |
13969830120 | stabilizing selection | Medium | 43 | |
13969831812 | Disruptive selection | both extremes | 44 | |
13969882938 | lytic cycle | Make copies of virus in bacteria and than release | 45 | |
13969918315 | Antigens | Foreign material that invades the body | 46 | |
13969929188 | Lymphocytes | The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system | 47 | |
13969934093 | B-cells | B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections in extracellular fluids; each has a specific receptor | 48 | |
13969946704 | Plasma cells | make antibodies | 49 | |
13969950184 | Antibodies | Specialized proteins that aid in destroying infectious agents | 50 | |
13969954666 | T-cells | T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances; also have receptors | 51 | |
13969968669 | Cytotoxic T cells | A type of lymphocyte that kills infected body cells and cancer cells | 52 | |
13969971087 | Helper T-Cell | lymphocyte that aids B cells and stimulates T cells | 53 | |
13969989360 | Refractory period | a period of inactivity after a neuron has fired | 54 | |
13969995660 | Axon bulb | End of an axon | 55 | |
13970000222 | Acetylcholine | A neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also triggers muscle contraction. Caused by Ca+ going across membrane | 56 | |
13970008279 | Schwann cells | Cells that wrap around the neuron | 57 | |
13970010221 | myelin sheath | A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next. | 58 | |
13970014017 | Nodes of Ranvier | Gaps in the myelin sheath to which voltage-gated sodium channels are confined. | 59 | |
13970022947 | peripheral nervous system | Everything but brain and spinal cord | 60 |
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