Final: Period 4

What

Final: Period 4

When

12/17/2008, 8:05 AM – 9:25 AM

Biology

1st Semester Study Guide

 

What is science?

What is Biology?

What is the goal of science?

What makes science different from other subjects?

What makes something living?

What is the first step of the scientific  method?

Give an example of data.

What is a hypothesis?

How do you come up with a hypothesis?

What must a hypothesis be able to do?

What is a controlled experiment?

What is a theory?

What is the difference between an theory and a hypothesis?

After an experiment is completed, what do you do?

Why should scientist share their results?

Are all experiments done in the lab?

What is homeostasis?

What are the types of reproduction?

How does an animal in the wild respond to its environment?

What is a unicellular organism?

How are the cells of a unicellular organism different from a multicellular organism?

What are the levels of biology that can be studied? Give an example of each.

What is the smallest level?

What is the most complex level?

What type of measurement is used in science? Why?

How can you organize your data from an experiment?

What are the different types of microscopes?

What type of microscope has a 2-D image? 3-D image?

What type of microscope uses a light?

What type do we use in class?

Know the safety rules.

What is the basic unit of matter?

How many particles make up an atom? What are they?

What particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?

What particle are found surrounding the nucleus?

What charge is given to each of the particles in an atom?

When an atom loses or gains an electron, what is it called?

When two atoms of the same element have a different number of neutrons, what are they called?

What is the atomic mass?

What is the atomic number?

An atom becomes positive or negative when it loses an electron?

An atom becomes positive or negative when it gains an electron?

What is formed when two or more elements of combined?

What type of bond is formed from the sharing of electrons?

What type of bond is formed when two atoms share two pairs of electrons?

What type of bond is formed when there is a transfer of electrons?

What type of electrons are able to form bonds?

What is the most abundant compound in living things?

What makes a water molecule polar?

What is the chemical formula for water?

What is it called when molecule are attracted to themselves?

What is it called when molecules are attracted to other types of molecules?

What is a mixture?

What is a solution?

When making Kool-Aid, what is the solvent?

When making Kool-Aid, what is the solute?

What is the difference between a solution and a suspension?

What does the pH scale determine?

What is the range for an acid?

What is the range for a base?

What makes something a neutral?

What makes something an acid?

What makes something a base?

What is a buffer?

What are the four main organic compounds in living things?

What makes something organic?

What does a carbohydrate do?

What is the monomer of a carbohydrate?

What is the polymer of a carbohydrate?

What is a simple sugar?  

What is a starch?

What do plants use carbohydrates for?

What do lipids do?

What is the body's second energy source?

What are the parts of a lipid?

What are the functions of a protein?

What is the monomer of a protein?

What is the polymer of a protein?

What does a nucleic acid do?

What are some examples of nucleic acids?

Where can you find nucleic acids?

What is the monomer of a nucleic acid called?

How are polymers made?

What does an enzyme do?

What goes into a chemical reaction?

What do you get at the end of a chemical reaction?

What is activation energy?

Who was the first person to look at a cell?

What did he look at?

How invented the microscope?

What are the three parts to the cell theory?

What is the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

What do prokaryotes lack?

What do all cells have?

What type of cells do plants have?  Bacteria?  Animals?

What is found in the cytoplasm?

Is the nucleus part of the cytoplasm?

What surrounds the nucleus?

What is it's function?

What are the functions of a nucleus?

What is found in the nucleus?

What is DNA?

What does DNA code for?

What is chromatin?  Where is it found?

What is chromatin wound up called?

What is the nucleolus?  Where is it found?

What surrounds the nucleus?

What is the cytoskeleton made up of?

What are some functions of the cytoskeleton?

Which organelle produces ATP?

What is ATP?

Which organelle converts chemical energy into cellular energy?

Which organelle is found only in plant cells and not in animal cells?

What is it's function?

What does a vacuole do?

How is the role of a vacuole different in plant cells versus animal cells?

What is the function of a lysosome?

What do ribosomes make?

What are the two types of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) ?

What are their functions?

What is the golgi apparatus (complex, body) ?

How is a protein made?

How do substance move throughout the cell?

What is the function of a cell membrane?

What makes up a cell membrane?

What is the double layered cell membrane called?

What is concentration?

What is diffusion?

When equilibrium reached?

What is the diffusion of water called?

What are some examples of passive transport?

What are some examples of active transport?

What is needed for active transport?

When a large molecule can not pass through the cell membrane, what will it use for help?

What is the type of transport?

What is the difference between active and passive transport?

When you put a cell in a hypertonic solution, what will happen to the cell?

When you put a cell in a hypotonic solution, what will happen to the cell?

When you put a cell in a isotonic solution, what will happen to the cell?

What is it called when a cell "eats" a substance?

What is it called when a cell "spits" out a substance?

What is it called when a cell "eats" a large substance?

What is cell specialization?

Why are cells specialized?

What are the levels of organization of a multicellular organism? List in order of complexity.

Give an example of each?

What connects two sister chromatids?

Why can't a cell get extremely large?

What is the relationship between the surface tension and volume of a cell as it increases in size?

What is the purpose of the cell cycle?

The cell cycle is divided into two parts, what are they?

What is the function of interphase?

What are the phases of interphase and what happens in each?

What happens in cell division?

What are the phases of the M phase and what happens in each?

What is the division of the nucleus called?

What is the division of the cytoplasm called?

What do you get at the end of cell division?

How are sex cells made?

How does bacteria divide?