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What are two things plants can do that animals can't?
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1) Photosynthesis
2) Can acquire essential nutrients that are raw and organic/mineral uptake |
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Name 3 benefits to early life oxygen had
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1) Blocked out UV radiation
2) Kreb Cycle 3) Oxygen is more efficient than Glucose in energy production |
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How do oxygen and hydrogen interact with electrons?
What is an effect of this when they bond together? |
-Oxygen grabs electrons from almost anything, hydrogen is very reluctant to give them up.
-Polarization of water |
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Transpiration
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A process that cools down leaves
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Why does water have high surface tension?
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Because of hydrogen bonding
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What is carbohydrates primary function?
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Produce energy
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What is the fundamental sugar?
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Glucose
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What is the general structure of a carb?
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Carbons (C) bonded to (OH)s and (H)s
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What are the two different forms glucose can be in?
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Linear or ring
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Polymerization (in general and specific example)
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When monomers join together to form polymers; glucose forming chains
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What makes cell walls?
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Cellulose and lignin
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Photosynthesis
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Radiant energy from the sun is captured and used to form sugars which all life depends on.
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What element is released as a by-product of photosynthesis?
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Oxygen
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What pigment absorbs energy during photosynthesis?
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Chlorophyll
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When did photosynthesis begin on Earth?
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3.4-3.5 billion years ago
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What molecule is split during photosynthesis?
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H20
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Respiration
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Breaking down oxygen to receive energy
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Anaerobic
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Oxygenless process
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What is a hydroxl and carboxl?
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OH-, CO(OH)
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How many bonds do: H, O, C, N, P elements form?
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1, 2, 4, 3, 4
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What is cellulose?
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A carbohydrate polymer
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Hydrophobic
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Repelled by water
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Hydrophylic
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Attracted to water
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Amines
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Organic molecules containing Nitrogen with a lone pair
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Amino acids are bonded by what kind of bonds?
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Peptide
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Peptide bonds bond what?
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Amino Acids
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What is the primary structure for a protein?
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Alpha-helix
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What is the name of the functional protein system?
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Quaternary structure
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What form do catalysts usually take on?
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Protein
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Name 3 characteristics of catalysts
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1) Speed up reaction
2) Do not affect direction of reaction 3) Are not consumed in reaction |
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What makes up a nucleotide in general?
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1) Phosphate group
2) Sugar 3) Nitrogenous base |
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What is the name of weak/ephemeral bonds in water?
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Hydrogen bonds
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What are the five different nitrogenous bases in nucleotides?
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1) Adenine
2) Guanine 3) Thymine - DNA 4) Cytosine 5) Uracil - RNA |
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Give an example of an alkaloid
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Morphine, Caffeine
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Cytoplasm
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Liquid gel inside cell, contains the cytosol and holds organelles together, also includes plasma membrane
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Prokaryote
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Without Nucleus
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Eukaryote
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True nucleus
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What is the nucleus' function?
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Directing the whole cell, determines which proteins are produced by the cell
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Grana
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Stacks of thylakoids in the chloroplast
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Where do light reactions occur?
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On the grana
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What is an organic molecule?
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A molecule containing carbon
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What are the four most common organic molecules?
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1) Carbs
2) Lipids 3) Proteins 4) Nucleic Acids |
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Polysaccaride
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Many sugars linked together
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Are lipids hydrophobic or hydrophilic?
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Hydrophobic
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Triglyceride
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3 fatty acid molecules bonded to a glycerol
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Saturated fatty acid have...
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Single C to C bonds
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Unsaturated fatty acids have....
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Double C to C bonds
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Phospholipid
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Lipid that becomes polarized by attaching a phosphorous
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What are proteins?
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Polymers of amino acids
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Phagocytosis
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Swallowing of small bacteria by larger cell which forms double membranes
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Symbiosis
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Close relationship of species/cells
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What does the Plasma Membrane do? (2 things)
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Coordinates cell wall synthesis, detects and facilitates cell growth and differentiation
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What is stored inside vacuoles?
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Sugars, acids, primary and secondary metabolites, and inorganic compounds
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Which organelle takes up the most space inside the cell?
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Vacuole
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What are the two parts of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and what are their functions?
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Smooth ER: makes lipids
Rough ER: makes proteins |
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What is the Golgi Body's function? (2 things)
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Exocytosis: Takes vesicles and adds compounds to them, then fuses with plasma membrane, then they leave. Also synthesis of polysaccarides.
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What are microtubules made up of?
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Tubulin protein
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Which organelle directs vesicles?
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Microtubule
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What does actin filament do?
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Helps movement in cell
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What are 3 organelles that plants have but animals don't?
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Cell Wall
Plastids Vacuoles |
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What holds a cell wall together?
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Pectin
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What prevents water loss in the cell wall?
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Suberin
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What does a cell wall determine/what are its functions?
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Determines size, shape and how long a cell will live
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Are primary or secondary cell walls thicker?
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Secondary cell walls
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What is the desmotubule?
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A tubule that runs between cells
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Plasmadesmata
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Tubules that traverse the cell wall and enable communication between cells, connect protoplasts between cells
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When does water potential = 0?
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At 1 atm, 20 C
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What is hydrostatic potential?
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Water with potential from pressure
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What is Asmotic Potential? What's the sign? What happens if NaCl is added?
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The potential to move water across a semi-permeable membrane. (-). Potential is lowered.
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Give an example of Matric Potential
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Sponge absorbing water
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Diffusion
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Water moving to reach equilibrium in a solution
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What happens when plants begin to wilt?
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Loss of turgor
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Incipient Plasmolysis
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When there is 0 turgor
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How do ions move through membranes?
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Channel proteins direct ions, size and charge of ions matter when passing through
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What is Chromatin?
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DNA combined with histone proteins
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What happens when chromosomes are condensed?
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They turn into chromatin
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What are ribosomes made of?
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RNA and proteins
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Where do amino acids link?
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In ribosomes
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What are two functions of plastids?
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1) Help photosynthesis
2) Store compounds |
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Where does respiration take place?
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Mitochondria
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Exocytosis
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Secretion of substances from cells to vesicles
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Pit Fields
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Area of greatly reduced thickness in primary cell wall
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Hydrostatic Pressure
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The pressure required to stop water flow
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What is a gradient determined by?
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The number of molecules dissolved, not mass
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Turgor Pressure
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Pressure that develops because of osmosis (osmotic pressure)
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Wall pressure
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Opposes the turgor pressure, balances it
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Which is the high energy state, NAD+ or NADH?
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NADH
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What is the energy chain from lowest to highest of Adenosine?
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Adenosine-->AMP-->ADP-->ATP
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How can ADP turn into ATP?
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Burning glucose
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How do big free energy changes in reactions affect chain/pathway reactions?
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They speed them up
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How do biological processes perform with respect to temperature?
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Increase 2-fold for increase in 10 C, until about 40 C.
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What are two things that determine how fast a reaction goes?
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Activation energy/free energy change, Ph
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What happens if a chain/pathway wants to stop? Why?
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A product usually goes to first reaction, so as to prevent any unwanted products.
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What is the most important biological pathway?
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Glycolysis (sugar-splitting)
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Is glycolysis an anaerobic or aerobic process?
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Both
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How does glycolysis begin?
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Hydrolysis of a starch to produce glucose
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What does the glycolysis process yield?
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2 ATP, 2 NADH and 2 pyruvate
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About how much of the original energy in the glucose molecule remains after glycolysis?
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80%
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What does respiration include?
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1) Glycolysis
2) Anaerobic/Aerobic pathway 3) Aerobic - Citric Acid Cycle then E-Transport Chain |
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Where do the citric acid cycle and e-transport chain occur?
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In the mitochondria
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What happens at the beginning of the Kreb cycle?
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Pyruvate is combined with coenzyme A to form AcetylCoA
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In the presence of oxygen, what happens to pyruvate after glycolysis?
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Enters mitochondria to become AcetylCoA and begin Kreb cycle
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Aquaporin and its function
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Protein in cell membrane that regulates the flow of water through passive transport
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Passive Transport
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Diffusion down/with a concentration/electrochemical gradient
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Active Transport
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Diffusion against a concentration/electrochemical gradient
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How much net energy is produced after glycolysis?
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6 ATPs
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Starch
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Polysaccaride consisting of many glucose molecules
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What is the second step in respiration and how much energy does it produce (under anaerobic conditions?)
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Pyruvate turning into AcetylCoA, yielding 6 ATPs of energy
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What is the point of respiration?
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To gather energy for cellular use
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What is the last step of the citric acid cycle and why is it important?
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Oxaloacetate is remade so that it can bind with another AcetylCoA and continue the cycle
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Where does CO2 release in plants come from?
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The oxidation of glucose (respiration)
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How much energy does all of respiration produce?
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36 ATPs
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What is iron's function in e-trasnport chain?
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Allows molecules to be reduced/oxidized
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When are electrons donated to e-trasnport chains?
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At high energy levels
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What element does the electron end the chain at? What is the name of it?
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Joins with O2, called the terminal electron acceptor
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Peter Mitchell
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Found that the electron transport chain could drive H+ ions across membrane to form ATP
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What happens when H+ is moved across membrane during e-transport chain?
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NADH is converted into ATP
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How much of the sun's energy that hits Earth is converted into energy from Photosynthesis?
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0.02%
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Simple Diffusion
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Allows solutes to pass through membranes
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What are two types of passive transport?
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Diffusion, osmosis
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What is an example of active transport?
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Pumping of H+ ions against concentration gradient
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True or false, water does not move freely through membranes.
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True
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First law of thermo
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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed in form
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Second law of thermo
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Entropy, state of order to disorder naturally
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What is the equation for free energy?
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G = H-TS
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Substrate
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Molecule on which an enzyme acts
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Active Site
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Where the substrate enters the enzyme
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Cofactor
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Non-protein compound bound to a protein that helps proteins function
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What happens when respiration occurs without oxygen?
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Glycolysis then fermentation
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ATP Synthase
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Creates ATP by bonding ADP and phosphate, also has a pore protons can pass through
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Where does glycolysis take place?
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In cytosol
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Van Helmont
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Willow tree experiment, proved plants didn't grow from soil, proposed water but was wrong (1648)
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Joseph Priestley, year?
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Plants were able to sustain life, hence producing Oxygen (1774)
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Ingenhousz, year?
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Proved Priestley's experiment needed light to work, (1796)
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What spectrum of light does chlorophyll absorb?
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400-700nm
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Englemann, year?
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Found that chlorophyll creates oxygen a lot in blue and red spectrum (1882)
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Robin Hill, year?
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Found that oxygen comes from someplace else than CO2, proposed two photosystems were connected (1937)
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Ruben and Kamen, year?
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Created Heavy water molecules and traced that oxygen came from water, (1941)
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Stroma
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Where dark reactions occur (on the bottom of leaf, not an organelle)
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In photosynthesis, photons, electrons and molecules have what ratio?
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1:1:1
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How are electrons raised in energy?
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Photons adds PE
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Fluorescence
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The photon electrons emit is always a longer wavelength than that at which it was absorbed
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When chlorophyll (pigment molecules) pass energy down into the reaction center to special chlorophyll molecules like tuning forks
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Resonance energy transfer
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How is photosynthesis initiated?
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Antennae capture electromagnetic waves
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Where is all the energy focused in the antenna complex?
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Reaction Center
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What happens in when electrons get lots of energy during photosynthesis?
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Photosystem 2 allows for the electron to undergo an electron transport chain that, when losing energy, pumps protons into an electrochemical gradient
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What happens (usually) when protons move down the electrochemical gradient?
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ATP is generated
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Cyclic Photophosphorolation
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The cyclic process in Photosystem 2 that produces ATP from sunlight
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Where does ATP go after Photosystem 2?
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Calvin Cycle
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Calvin/Benson, year?
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Worked out path of citric acid cycle by watching the path radioactive carbon took (1947-1953)
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Pigment
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A substance that absorbs light
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Action Spectrum
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The spectrum as a measure of how effective certain wavelengths are in light requiring processes.
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What are two photosynthetic reactions?
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1) Light reactions
2) Carbon fixation/reduction Reactions |
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Light reaction
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When light is used to form ATP from ATD
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Carbon Fixation/reduction
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The reduction of CO2 to an organic compound
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What kind of reaction is the Calvin Cycle?
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Carbon Fixation/reduction
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Wat are the three stages in the Calvin Cycle?
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1) Fixation
2) Reduction 3) Regeneration |
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What is the total energy from non-cyclic e flow?
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6 ATP and 6 NADPH
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What happens in the 1st stage of Calvin cycle?
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Carbon bonds to RuBP to form PGA (x2)
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What happens in the 2nd stage of Calvin cycle?
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PGA is reduced to PGAL
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What happens in 3rd stage of Calvin Cycle?
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Glyceraldehyde (x5) regenerates RuBP
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Overall, what happens in Calvin Cycle?
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Carbon is fixed and turned into sucrose (starch)
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Photorespiration, what is the result of this?
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When Calvin cycle takes place with Oxygen instead of CO2 (reduces efficiency)
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What kind of a pathway is Calvin Cycle?
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C3 pathway
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What's the most efficient pathway (usually) in photosynthesis?
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C4 pathway
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Rubisco and its function
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Is a protein, the most abundant enzyme in the biosphere, takes CO2 and adds it to sugar
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What are the 3 stages of interphase?
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1) G1 phase
2) S phase 3) G2 phase |
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What happens after interphase?
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mitosis/meiosis
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G1 phase
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cell doubles in size, organelles increase in number
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S phase
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DNA replicates
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G2 phase
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Chromosomes condense, structures for cell division assemble
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What are the stages of Mitosis?
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1) Early Prophase
2) Prophase 3) Metaphase 4) Anaphase 5) Telophase |
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Prophase
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Chromatins begin to condense along cell plate into chromosomes
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Chromatids
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half a chromosome, but when separated become chromosomes, hold replicated DNA of chromosomes
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Histones (what do they do)
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Organize chromosomes when they condense to preserve order
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Kinetochore
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A protein structure on chromatids that pulls sister chromatids apart
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Sister chromatids
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Chromatids joined by the centromere
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Metaphase
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The mitotic spindle is formed
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Anaphase
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Chromosomes divide very quickly to poles
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Cytokenesis, what is it caused by?
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The actual division of the cell, caused by the cell plate
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Telophase
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Cell plate and nucleolus is formed
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What is the end result of Mitosis?
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Identical genetic information going into either cell
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Diploid cell
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Contains two sets of chromosomes
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Haploid cell
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One complete set of chromosomes
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Meiosis is a process of (blank) cell to #(blank) cells
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diploid to four haploid
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Gamete
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A cell that unites with another gamete to produce a diploid zygote
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Syngamy
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When two gametes fuse to form a zygote
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Gene
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Unit of heredity in an organism (DNA/RNA)
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Locus
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Location at which a gene is found
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Allele
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An alternative form of a gene (blue/brown eyes)
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Homolog
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A pair of chromosomes that have two identical chromatids
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When homologs wrap together, it's called
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Synapsis (difference between meiosis and mitosis)
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Crossing over, what is the result?
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When two different chromatids attach to each other, can happen multiple times, the result is the chromatids becoming different and obtaining different alleles
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Prophase I
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Homologs come together in pairs and coil around one another
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Metaphase I
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Paired chromosomes move on the metaphase plate, centromeres evenly distributed on sides of equatorial plane of spindle
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Anaphase I
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Paired chromosomes separate
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Metaphase II
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Centromeres are now lying on the plane and chromosomes are lined up at the equatorial plane
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Anaphase II
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Centromeres separate and chromatids move away from each other
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Centromere
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Thing that binds two homologs together
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Telophase II
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Four new nuclei now exists, each a haploid cell
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What are the step of Meiosis?
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1) Prophase I
2) Metaphase I 3) Anaphase I 4) Metaphase II 5) Anaphase II 6) Telophase II |
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Law of Segregation
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Alleles segregate from each other and join randomly during meiosis when they split apart (Y and y randomly get paired)
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Law of Independent Assortment
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Alleles of one trait don't affect how often alleles from other traits are chosen
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Gregor Mendel, year?
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Worked with peas, looked at multiple generations of plants and how they changed (1866)
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Homozygous
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Same Allele
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Heterozygous
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Different Allele
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Name 3 ways mutations occur
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1) Radiation
2) Transposons 3) Polyploidy |
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Transposons
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(Jumping genes) Segments of DNA move from one chromosome to another, form mutations
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Polyploidy
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Duplication of whole sets of chromosomes
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Why is sexual reproduction favored?
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Because it provides variation for a species
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Vegetative/Asexual reproduction
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Progeny have exact same genes as parents, can sexually reproduce with itself
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When was DNA discovered?
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1869
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What are chromosomes made of?
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DNA and protein
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MacLoed and McCarty, year?
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DNA causes bacterial transformation (1944)
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Chargaff, year?
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Came up with Adenine amount = Thymine amount and Guanine amount = Cytosine amount (1947)
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Watson and Crick, year?
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DNA has a alpha double helix shape, (1953)
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Maelson and Stahl, year?
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DNA division is semi-conservative (1958)
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What does Helicase do?
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Unzips DNA by eliminating hydrogen bonds
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DNA polymerase function?
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Replicates DNA from 5 C side to 3 C
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Transcription
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Synthesis of RNA, (DNA transcribes info onto RNA)
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What is RNA's function?
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Translates information onto proteins
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Translation
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Ribosome mediated synthesis of a protein
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What attaches to an unzipped piece of DNA?
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mRNA
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What does an anticodon do?
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Attaches to codon on tRNA
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What are the 3 stages of protein synthesis?
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1) Initiation
2) Elongation 3) Termination |
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Initiation
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Small ribosomal subunit attaches to 5' end of mRNA (long strip) and the first tRNA molecule attaches to the initiation codon then the large ribosomal subunit comes and attaches
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Elongation
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A polypeptide (protein) is formed as more tRNA attach and detach
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Termination
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Termination (stop) codon, the protein is released
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Codon
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A sequence of three molecules, codons make up mRNA
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Transcription Factors
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A specific protein that attaches to specific DNA sequences, controlling the info to mRNA
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What happens when methylation occurs?
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Transcription can no longer take place
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Charles Darwin's most famous voyage, year?
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HMS Beagle (1831)
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What four factors convinced Darwin of evolution?
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1) Over Production
2) Variation 3) Natural Selection 4) Long Time |
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Malthus, year?
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Book on overproduction (1798)
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When was the Origin Of Species published?
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1860
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Gene Pool
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Sum of all alleles in a population
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Fitness
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The ability of the passage of genes to the next generation
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium conditions, year? (5)
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1) No mutations
2) Large population 3) Isolation from other populations 4) Random Mating 5) Absence of Selection |
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Genetic Drift
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Genotypes eliminated in mass destruction of population
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Founder Effect
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When species migrate to new areas, there is a chance the allele frequency changed
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Does the allele frequency change in non-random mating?
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No
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Biological species concept
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If individuals can breed together, they are the same species
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Morphological species concept
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If individuals look very similar, they are the same species
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Allopatric Speciation
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Gene flow is disrupted due to natural causes (mountains rising)
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What is Sympatric speciation and what causes it?
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Nondisjunction occurs in meiosis, autopolyploid organism is formed due to a mistake where the homologs don't separate
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Introgression
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Buffalo Cattle example, a gene from a completely different type of species is found in an organism, even though phenotype is identical to its parents
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Systematics
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Look at how closely related species are from their origins/ancestors
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Taxonomy
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Identifying, naming and classifying all organisms
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Linnaeus, year?
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Wrote Species Planterum, used Latin to identify plants and came up with binomial structure
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Genus
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Group an organism is related to
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Epithet
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Specific name within a genus
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Convergent evolution
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Different origins of structures, but now perform same tasks
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Divergent evolution
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Similar structures now used for different tasks
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3 Major differences in meiosis/mitosis
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1) 2 nuclear divisions in meiosis, one in mitosis (same amount of DNA replications though)
2) 4 haploid cells in meiosis with half the chromosomes, 2 diploid cells in mitosis 3) Different gene combinations in meiosis, identical DNA in mitosis |
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Linkage
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Genes close together on genetic maps show how much each gene segregates
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What is the difference between DNA and RNA?
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RNA is made of uracil and 3 other nucleotides and DNA is made of Thymine and 3 other nucleotides
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Phylogenetic Species Concept
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Define species in terms of ancestry
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Nucleolus and its function
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Organelle inside nucleus concerned with producing ribosomes
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Hydrolysis
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The breaking down of a molecule by adding water
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Rubisco
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Enzyme that catalyzes the carboxylation of RuBP
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During Cellular Respiration what happens to Glucose?
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Gets oxidized
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What are the four major types of orghanic molecules?
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1) Protein
2) Lipids 3) Carbs 4) Nucleotides |
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Anabolic Process
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Endergonic reactions (take energy, like forming polysaccarides)
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Catabolic Process
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Exergonic reactions (give off energy, like polysaccarides being broken down into glucose)
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