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The tendency of water molecules to stick together.

Cohesion

The tendency to form hydrogen bonds with substances other than water.

Adhesión

In a _________, two or more molecules swap their atoms to yield different molecules

Chemical reaction

Chemists depict these reactions as equations with the _______, is starting materials.

Reactants

________ are neither created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction, rather they are simply rearranged.

Atoms

Scientists describe molecules by writing symbols of their constituent elements. This is termed

Molecular formula

Compounds that consist primarily of _____ and ______ atoms are said to bad organic.

Carbon


Hydrogen

All organisms consist largely of the same four types of organic molecules ______.

Carbohydrates


Proteins


Nucleic acid


Lipids

The small organic molecules - sugars, fatty acids, amino acids, and nucleotides are called _______.

Monomers

A molecule that consists of multiple monomers is a _______.

Polymer

Cells use a chemical reaction called ___________ to link monomers together into polymers.

Dehydration synthesis

_________ is a chemical reaction that breaks the covalent bonds that link monomers.

Hydrolysis

Carbohydrates are organic molecules that consist of _________

Carbon


Hydrogen


Oxygen

_______ are the simplest of the four main types of organic compounds.

Carbohydrates.

The two main groups of carbohydrates are ______ and ____\\

Simple sugars


Complex carbohydrates

The smallest and simplest carbohydrates, the ______, usually contain five or six carbon atoms.

Monosaccharides

_________ are huge molecules consisting of hundreds of thousands of monosaccharides monomers.

Polysaccharide

_______ are fatty, oily, or waxy organic compounds.

Lipids

Many lipids incorpore ________ which are small organic molecules that consist of a carbon chain and a carboxyl group

Fatty acids

________ consist of a glycerol molecule that is attached to thee fatty acid chain.

Triglycerides

A ______ is a substance that consists mainly of triglycerides.

Fat

A _________ has two fatty acid tails and a head that contains a phosphate group.

Phospholipid

A ________ is a chain of monomers called _______

Protein


Amino acids

One is a hydrogen atom, another is a carboxyl group, third is an ________, and the fourth is a side chain called ______.

Amino group


R group

Proteins are vulnerable to external conditions that alter their shapes. Heat, excessive salt, or the wrong ph can ______ a protein.

Denature

A ________is the resulting covalent bond that links each amino acid to its neighbor. Two linked amino acids form a _______, three form a ______

Peptide bond


Dipeptide


Tripeptide

Long chains of amino acids are ______

Polypeptide

Each proteins primary structure is encoded in the sequence of a _____. Cells contain two types of nucleic acid, ________

Nucleic acid


DNA


RNA

______ are small organic molecules that function as energy carriers, enzyme helpers, chemical messages.

Nucleotides

At the center is a _________ in RNA And deoxyribose in DNA

Five carbon sugar

Attached to one of the sugars carbon atoms is at least one _______\ and the opposite side of the sugar a _______

Phosphate


Nitrogenous Group

The cell theory states:

Each organism consists of one or more cells


Smallest unit of life


All arise by division of preexisting cells


Contain hereditary material

Cell features:

Plasma membrane


Cytoplasm


DNA


RNA


Robsome


Cystosol

A cells ________ separates it from the external environment.

Plasma membrane

The plasma membrane enclosed a jelly like mixture of water sugars ions and proteins called

Cytoplasm

Is the fluid portion of cytoplasm

Cytosol

Are structures that carry out special metabolic functions inside a cell.

Organelles

Every cell start out life with

Dna

The dna of a eukaryotic cell is contained in a ______, an organelle with a double membrane

Nucleus

All cells also contain ______ which are the structure that manufacture proteins.

Ribosomes.

Biologists organized life into three domains:

Bacteria


Archaea


Eukarya

All __\__ and _____ are single celled organisms.

Bacteria


Archaea

Bacteria and archaea are classified as_____

Prokaryotes

_______ are the most abundant and diverse organisms on earth.

Bacteria

The _______ is the area where the cells circular dna molecule congregates.

Núcleoid

Located near the DNA in the cytoplasm are the ________\_ needed to produce the cells proteins.

Enzymes


RNA molecules and ribosomes

A rigid _____ surrounds the cell membrane of Most bacteria, protecting the cell and preventing it from busting if it absorbs too much water.

Cell wall

A rigid _____ surrounds the cell membrane of Most bacteria, protecting the cell and preventing it from busting if it absorbs too much water.

Cell wall

Polysaccharides on the cell wall form a _______that adds protection or enables the cell to attach to surfaces.

Capsule

______ are tail like appendages that enable these cells to move

Flagella

_____\ cells like bacteria are smaller than most eukaryotic cells, and they lack a nucleus and other organelles

Archaean


One obvious feature that sets _____\\ apart is their large size. Typicallly 10 to 100 times greater than ________ cells.

Eukaryotic


Prokaryotic

The other main difference is that the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cell is divided into_______

Organelles

A cell serves two important functions:

It keeps the cells genetic material


A nucleus controls the passage of certain molecules across its membrane.

The process of protein production and secretion begins in the ______

Nucleus

The mRNA molecules exit the nucleus through ______ which are holes in the double membrane ________ that separates the nucleus from the cytoplasm.

Nucleur pores


Nuclear envelope

Small membrane enclosed sacs called ______ form by budding from other organelles.

Vesicles

The _________ is a network of sacs and tubules composed of membranes.

Endoplasmic reticulum

The ______ is a stack of flat, membrane enclosed sacs that functions as a processing center.

Golgi apparatus

_______ are organelles that use the process called cellular respiration to extract this needed energy from food.

Mitochondria

A mitochondrion has two membraine layers:

Outer membrane


Inner membrane

Are the files of the inner mebrane.

Cristae

Between the nucleus and plasma membrane of all eukaryotic cells is a system of protein filaments collectively called the

Cytoskeleton

____ that associates with cytoskeletal elements love cells parts.

Motor proteins.

Eukaryotic ______ propel sperm and other motile cells through fluid.

Flagella

Are short hairlike structures that project from the surface of some eukaryotic cells.

Cilia

Some eukaryotic cells including the amoeba form _____ is false feet.

Pseudopods

The cell membrane is composed of _____ which are organic molecules that resemble triglycerides

Phospholipids

_________ maintain the membranes fluidity aa the temperature fluctuates.

Steroid molecules.

Due to its hydrophobic middle portion, the phospholipid bilateral has ________ meaning that some but not all substances can pass through it.

Selective permeability

Both animal and plant cell membranes contain steroids; the ___________ is the most familiar example.

Cholesterol in animal membranes

________ embedded in the phospholipid bilayer create passageways through which ions, glucose, and other polar substances pass into or out of the cell.

Transport proteins

______ carbohydrates attached to cell surface proteins serve as name that help the body’s immune system recognize its own cells.

Recognition protein

______ the membrane proteins enable cells to stick to one another

Adhesión proteins

These membrane proteins trigger a change in the cells activities in response to a stimulus.

Receptor proteins

A biological membrane is a phospholipid bilayer studded with proteins. This arrangement makes a membrane _______or choosy.

Selectively permeable

In a ________, a solute is more concentrated in one region than in a neighboring region.

Concentration gradient

In _______, a substance move across a membrane without the direct expenditure or energy.

Passive transport

All forms of passive transport involve _____, the spontaneous movement of a substance from a region where it is more concentrated to a region where it is less concentrated.

Diffusion

In ______, a substance moves down its concentration gradient without the use of a transport protein.

Simple diffusion

_____ is the simple diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane

Osmosis

The cells interior is normally ______ to the surrounding blood plasma, which means that the plasmas solute concentration is the same as the inside of the cell.

Isotonic

In a ______. Surroundings have a higher concentration of solutes then the cells cytoplasm

Hypertonic

Is a form of passive transport in which a membrane protein assists the movement of a polar solute along its concentration gradient

Facilitated diffusion

In ______ a cell uses a transport protein to move a substance against its concentration gradient

Active transport