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Cellular Respiration: (define) (Ch 9)
What organisms do it?
What is a heterotroph
Balanced equation for it?
What factors would affect the rate of respiration in humans?
What is the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration? (draw a diagram of a plant and an animal and draw the flow of materials between them) (p232)
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MY BIOLOGY REVIEW BOOK
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Biology: (define)
What is life? (list the characteristics of living things)(p16)
What is science? (define)(p3)
(explain the steps to the scientific method)(sect. 1-2)
Chemistry of Life:
What are the properties of water that make life possible?(2-2)
Organic Compounds (define) (2-3)
Explain 4 groups and give examples of each and their functions in living systems?
Enzymes: What are they? What do they do for cells? (2-4)
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Cell Theory: What are the basic units of life? (7-1)
Explain 3 parts to cell theory:(7-1)
prokaryotic cells (define & give examples)
eukaryotic cells (define)
animal cell (diagram & label)(7-2)
plant cell (diagram & label)(7-2)
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Give the functions of these organelles:(7-2)
cell membrane
nucleus
mitochondria
chloroplasts
ribosomes
endoplasmic reticulum (smooth)
endoplasmic reticulum (rough)
Golgi apparatus
cell wall
Cell Transport: (7-3)
Cell Membrane (diagram/label) - explain bi-lipid layer & channels
Explain:
diffusion
Explain how diffusion accounts for oxygen and CO2 exchange between air & blood in lungs.
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osmosis
3 types solutions (what will cells do in each)
active transport (diagram)
endocytosis (diagram)
exocytosis (diagram)
Photosynthesis: (define) (Ch 8)
What organisms do it?
What is an autotroph?
Balanced equation for it?(p206)
What factors would affect the rate of photosynthesis? (p214)
What is ATP used for by organisms? (8-1)
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A man with blue eyes (bb) marries a brown-eyed woman from Africa (BB). What are the chances they will have a blue-eyed child? Why?
Two brown-eyed people marry and want to have children. Each of them had a blue-eyed mother. What are the chances they will have a blue-eyed child? Why?
What are the chances the above couple will have a brown-eyed girl? Why?
What are the chances that 2 colorblind people will have a normal-vision child? Why?
Describe the relationship between the terms DNA, RNA, amino acids, proteins, and enzymes?
With only 20 amino acids, how can there be an almost infinite number of proteins?
Evolution
What are Darwin's 5 ideas of how evolution occurs?
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What 3 factors will increase variation in a population?
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As variation increases in a population, what happens to the chances the population will survive environmental change?
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