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Official treatment of Ulcers is Anitbiotics TERM 2
Eukarya Domain
DEFINITION 2 Protist Plant Animal Fungus TERM 3
Electrostatic Attraction
DEFINITION 3 A negative charged ion and a positive charged ion TERM 4
Valid Hypothesis
DEFINITION 4 Examples all cells have a nucleus All onion cells have a nucleus All bacteria cells have a nucleus NOT Valid- Some frog epithelial cells have a nucleus TERM 5
Prion Disease
DEFINITION 5 Damages the brain by refolding the cells normal protein into a disease causing form
Peptide Bonds
collagen hemoglobin Anitbody Enzyme TERM 7
High Standard
Deviation
DEFINITION 7 Was produced by too small of a sample size TERM 8
Least Soluble in Water
DEFINITION 8 C4H9OH TERM 9
pH of 10
DEFINITION 9 Has a hydrogen ion concentration which is one hundred times less than a solution with a pH of 8 TERM 10
Functional Group common to Aldehydes and
ketones?
DEFINITION 10 Carbonyl Group
Pentose Monosaccharide in ATP and RNA
ribose TERM 17
Starch: Plant Cells ?:Animal Cells
DEFINITION 17 Glycogen TERM 18
Pyrimidine Nitrogenous Base in DNA and
RNA
DEFINITION 18 Cytosine TERM 19
Saturated Hydrocarbons
DEFINITION 19 they would tend to be foundmore-soin fats than oils The maximum number of hydrogens are bonded to each of the carbon atoms The bonds between carbon atoms are all single nonpolar covalent bonds TERM 20
Six elements that make up 99% of all
compounds of life
DEFINITION 20 Nonmetals
Determines the primary level of protein
sturcture
DNA
TERM 22
Gold Foil
Experiment
DEFINITION 22 Most mass associated with the atom is in the nucleus The atom contains a very small central nucleus the nucleus is the center of the positive charge of an atom Most of the atom is empty space TERM 23
Adenosine Triphosphate
DEFINITION 23 The molecule which serves as theimmediatesource ofenergyfor many biological processes TERM 24
Electrons of an Atom
DEFINITION 24 Electrons are in constant motion outside of the nucleus The number of valence electrons determines the chemicalre-activityof the atom Tend to occupy orbitals within energy levels and maximum of twoelectronscan be in each orbital They have an equal but opposite charge to a proton TERM 25
Amphipathic
DEFINITION 25 C5H11OH
Unicellular Eukaryote
Protista TERM 32
Tertiary Level
DEFINITION 32 Level of protein structure in which side groups of nonadjacent amino acids of the same polypeptide chain interact with one another TERM 33
Viagra
DEFINITION 33 Increases nitric oxide production in blood vessel wall cells TERM 34
DNA and Globular Proteins Both?
DEFINITION 34 contain hydrogen bonds within their structure TERM 35
Uncontrolled Independent Variable
DEFINITION 35 Variable that which is different for each group in the experiment and the researcher is in control of altering
Isotopes
Same atomic number TERM 37
Isomers
DEFINITION 37 example: Maltose and lactose TERM 38
ATP
DEFINITION 38 Has two high energy bonds present in one molecule TERM 39
Biochemistry
DEFINITION 39 The branch of organic chemistry that deals with carbon containing molecules that are important to life TERM 40
Peptide Bond: Polypeptide
?:Phospholipids
DEFINITION 40 Ester
Mean
Set of numerical data is averaged by calculation TERM 47
Amino Group
DEFINITION 47 The name of the function group which is capable of acting as a base and accepting a H+ ion to becomepositivelycharged TERM 48
Amyelopectin
DEFINITION 48 Branched form of starch TERM 49
Amylose
DEFINITION 49 Unbranched form of starch TERM 50
Enzymes
DEFINITION 50 Protein catalysts which tend to increase the rate of a biochemical reaction
Chromosomes
Threads of DNA and protein that carry the genes TERM 52
Aster Rays
DEFINITION 52 Structure composed of microtubles and located at each pole of the mitotic spindle in animal cells TERM 53
Growth Factors
DEFINITION 53 Chemicals which bind to cell membrane receptors to create a signal cascade that leads to DNAreplicationand cell division TERM 54
Kinetichore
DEFINITION 54 Specialized disk shaped structure made of microtubles that attach mitotic spindle to the centromere TERM 55
Entropy
DEFINITION 55 Measurement of disorder of a system
Histones
Positively charged proteins that aid in the collapsing and folding of the DNA molecule into bundles TERM 62
Nucleosome
DEFINITION 62 complex of eight histone proteins and 146 nucleotides of DNA wrapped twice around the histones TERM 63
Homolog
DEFINITION 63 One member of a pair of chromosomes which is of either maternal or paternal orign TERM 64
Equilibrium
DEFINITION 64 Established when the rate of a forward reaction is equal to the rate of the reverse reaction TERM 65
Cyclins
DEFINITION 65 chemicals which regulate the cells passage through various stages of mitosis as their levels rise and fall
Mitosis
Process by which somatic cells divide Process which maintains the diploid number of chromosomes Process by which a eukaryotic unicellular organism divides asexually Process involved in cleavage, morphogenesis,and differentiation of an embyro TERM 67
Fertilization
DEFINITION 67 Process by which restores the diploid number of chromosomes from the union of two haploid gametes TERM 68
Binary Fission
DEFINITION 68 Process by which a porkaryotic unicellular organism divides asexually TERM 69
Meiosis
DEFINITION 69 Process which reduces the chromosome number from diploid to haploid Process by which gametes are formed fromt eh germ cells of gonads of sexually reproducing organisms
