BIOL 1020 Final Exam
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1. What are the 7 characteristics of life? ordered and organized, responds
to environment, reproduces, internal-
ly regulates, grows and develops,
processes energy, evolutionarily adapts
2. What are the 5 physical properties of life? reliant on water, carbon based, made of
cells, use of DNA, integrated with other
organisms
3. Hierarchy of life (BEC POOT COMA) biosphere, ecosystem, community,
population, organism, organ systems,
tissue, cell, organelle, molecule, atom
4. Taxonomic Hierarchy (dumb king phillip domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order,
came over for good spaghetti) family, genus, species
5. The central theory of biology is evolution by natural selection
means of ______
6. What are the 5 steps of the scientific method? observation, hypothesis, experiment,
data, conclusion
7. Isotopes vary in their number of ____. neutrons
8. What is the mass of protons and neutrons? 1.7 x 10E-24g
Electrons are negligible in mass
9. What is an example of a biological buffer? bicarbonate in blood
10. What are the 4 most abundant elements in hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
life?
11. What are some of the 4% elements? sodium, magnesium, potassium, calci-
um, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine
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12. What are the 4 emergent properties of water? cohesion, moderation of temperature,
expansion upon freezing (ice floats),
versatility as a solvent
13. What does water dissociate into? Is this com- H+ and OH-, no
mon?
14. What is the purpose of buffers? Act to resist pH change
15. What do vitalists believe? Living molecules only come fromliving
sources
16. What do mechanists believe? Living chemistry is complex, but repro-
ducible
17. Carbon chains form the skeleton of most length, branching patterns, double
organic molecules. How do these skeletons bond positions, presence of rings
vary?
18. have different covalent arrangements of structural isomers
their atoms
19. have the same covalent bonds but differ in cis trans isomers
spatial arrangements
20. isomers that are mirror images of each other enantiomers
21. hydroxyl group OH-
22. carboxyl group COOH
23. carbonyl group (ketones and aldehydes) C=O
24. sulfhydryl group -SH
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25. amine group NH2
26. phosphate group PO4
27. methyl group CH3
28. Macromolecules are formed by _____ and bro- dehydration synthesis, hydrolysis
ken down by ______
29. What do all carbohydrates have/ what are location of carbonyl groups and carbon
they classified by? backbone length
30. What are the functions of the 4 common poly- cellulose- plant structure, glycogen- an-
saccharides? imal energy storage, starch- plant en-
ergy storage, chitin- animal and fungi
structure
31. What macromolecule does not form true lipids
polymers?
32. What functional group is in fatty acids? carboxyl
33. What forms between monosaccharides? glycosidic linkages
34. What bonds form between fatty acids? ester linkages
35. What fats are solid at room temperature? saturated fats and trans fats
36. What fat is the worst for cardiovascular trans fats
health?
37. Proteins account for more than __% of the dry 50
mass of most cells
38. What functional groups are in proteins? amine, carboxyl, and R group
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1. What are the 7 characteristics of life? ordered and organized, responds
to environment, reproduces, internal-
ly regulates, grows and develops,
processes energy, evolutionarily adapts
2. What are the 5 physical properties of life? reliant on water, carbon based, made of
cells, use of DNA, integrated with other
organisms
3. Hierarchy of life (BEC POOT COMA) biosphere, ecosystem, community,
population, organism, organ systems,
tissue, cell, organelle, molecule, atom
4. Taxonomic Hierarchy (dumb king phillip domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order,
came over for good spaghetti) family, genus, species
5. The central theory of biology is evolution by natural selection
means of ______
6. What are the 5 steps of the scientific method? observation, hypothesis, experiment,
data, conclusion
7. Isotopes vary in their number of ____. neutrons
8. What is the mass of protons and neutrons? 1.7 x 10E-24g
Electrons are negligible in mass
9. What is an example of a biological buffer? bicarbonate in blood
10. What are the 4 most abundant elements in hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
life?
11. What are some of the 4% elements? sodium, magnesium, potassium, calci-
um, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine
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12. What are the 4 emergent properties of water? cohesion, moderation of temperature,
expansion upon freezing (ice floats),
versatility as a solvent
13. What does water dissociate into? Is this com- H+ and OH-, no
mon?
14. What is the purpose of buffers? Act to resist pH change
15. What do vitalists believe? Living molecules only come fromliving
sources
16. What do mechanists believe? Living chemistry is complex, but repro-
ducible
17. Carbon chains form the skeleton of most length, branching patterns, double
organic molecules. How do these skeletons bond positions, presence of rings
vary?
18. have different covalent arrangements of structural isomers
their atoms
19. have the same covalent bonds but differ in cis trans isomers
spatial arrangements
20. isomers that are mirror images of each other enantiomers
21. hydroxyl group OH-
22. carboxyl group COOH
23. carbonyl group (ketones and aldehydes) C=O
24. sulfhydryl group -SH
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25. amine group NH2
26. phosphate group PO4
27. methyl group CH3
28. Macromolecules are formed by _____ and bro- dehydration synthesis, hydrolysis
ken down by ______
29. What do all carbohydrates have/ what are location of carbonyl groups and carbon
they classified by? backbone length
30. What are the functions of the 4 common poly- cellulose- plant structure, glycogen- an-
saccharides? imal energy storage, starch- plant en-
ergy storage, chitin- animal and fungi
structure
31. What macromolecule does not form true lipids
polymers?
32. What functional group is in fatty acids? carboxyl
33. What forms between monosaccharides? glycosidic linkages
34. What bonds form between fatty acids? ester linkages
35. What fats are solid at room temperature? saturated fats and trans fats
36. What fat is the worst for cardiovascular trans fats
health?
37. Proteins account for more than __% of the dry 50
mass of most cells
38. What functional groups are in proteins? amine, carboxyl, and R group
