Chemistry of Life | Cell Structure and Function | Energetics | Cell Cycle | Ends with -ase |
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What is water?
The only substance that commonly exists on Earth in solid, liquid and gas form at the same time.
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What is a phospholipid?
Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi body and cell membrane are all made of this molecule.
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What is photosynthesis?
Process that removes carbon from the atmosphere and moves it into the biosphere.
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What is asexual reproduction?
Desert whiptail lizards create offspring in this manner, creating clones of themselves.
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What is Interphase?
The longest part of the cell cycle, where DNA replication occurs.
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What are enzymes?
RNA and proteins that can lower the activation energy of chemical reactions.
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What are adjacent cells?
Desmosomes, tight junctions and gap junctions all connect these.
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What is respiration?
Has both aerobic and anaerobic components to this metabolic process.
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What is a growth factor?
Binds to a receptor which activates transcription factors.
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What is protein-kinase?
This type of receptor adds phosphates to proteins changing the activity of the enzyme.
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What is a condensation reaction?
Chemical reaction that combines monomers into a polymer releasing water.
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What is osmosis?
Movement of water from a hypotonic area to a hypertonic area.
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What is the electron transport chain?
The only shared process of the both respiration and photosynthesis creating ATP.
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What is the mitosis checkpoint?
This checkpoint makes sure that metaphase has moved chromosomes appropriately.
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What is anaphase?
Sister chromatids separate and are pulled to opposite poles.
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What are lipids?
Steroids have a backbone of this macromolecule.
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What are passive transport processes?
Diffusion, facilitated diffusion and osmosis.
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What is increasing the surface area inside the organelle?
The advantage of cristae in mitochondria and thylakoids in chloroplasts.
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What is cytokinesis?
New cell wall material forms to separate two new plant cells.
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What is ribose?
The sugar molecule in RNA.
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What is a phosphodiester bond?
The bond that forms between a 5' phosphate of one nucleotide and the 3' hydroxyl of the next nucleotide.
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What is an inhibitor?
Prevents the normal ligand from binding to a receptor site.
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What is reduction?
Addition of hydrogens, and electrons, to a molecule.
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What are cyclins?
Proteins that activate or inactivate target proteins that regulate the cell cycle.
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What is a base?
The nitrogen-containing part of a nucleotide.
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