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Carbohydrates - Answer Sugars and large molecules made from sugars. Key for dietary energy in animals and structural component of plants. Names end in -ose Monomers (carbohydrates) - Answer monosaccharides (building blocks) Polymers (carbohydrates) - Answer Polysaccharides Monomers (proteins) - Answer Amino acids (building blocks) - joined together by a peptide bonds make polymers Polymers (proteins) - Answer Polypeptides (monomers joined together by a p...

What is Biology characterized by? - Answer Reproduction, growth and development, cells, order, energy use, response to the environment, and evolution. Ecology - Answer Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) organisms and their environment How does the ecosystem process energy? - Answer Energy flows into the ecosystem from the sun, solar energy is then converted into chemical energy from producers. Biogeochem...

DNA is wrapped - Answer Around proteins to form chromatin Chromatin twists and folds - Answer To form a chromosome Where are chromosomes stored - Answer In the cell's nucleus What are the building blocks of DNA - Answer nucleotides What are the three parts of nucleotides - Answer 1. Central 5-carbon sugar 2. Negatively charged phosphate 3. Best made of one or two rings of nitrogen and carbon Four bases in a nucleotides - Answer Adenine (A...

Describe features of viruses - Answer o Difficult to treat because there are few effective anti-viral medications o Antibiotics are effective against bacteria, not viruses o Vaccination is often the only medical means to prevent viral illnesses Describe the role of adaptations in viral emergence - Answer Change that provides an advantage to an organism in their environment Model the emergence of viruses - Answer The virus proteins will change their shapes to match and ...

secondary palate - Answer anatomical structure that divides the nasal cavity from the oral cavity in vertebrates located posteriorly; allows for breathing while eating furcula - Answer fused clavicle of birds and some dinosaurs; stabilizes shoulder (wish bone) From which specific reptilian lineage did modern birds descend? - Answer Archosauria List the two major living clades of Archosauria (lead lizard) - Answer Pseudosuchia (crocodiles and their relatives) Ori...

main organs of digestive system - Answer mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, salivary glands alimentary canal - Answer digestive tube that extends from the mouth to the anus alimentary canal organs - Answer mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus accessory organs of the digestive system - Answer liver, gallbladder, pancreas, salivary glands four stages food...

Virus - Answer A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell. NOT LIVING ORGANISMS How were viruses discovered? - Answer Viruses were discovered by Dmitry Ivanovsky in 1892 by the usage of a filtration experiment Zika virus - Answer Member of the Flavivirus family. Vector: Mosquitoes. Typically leads to a mild illness and microcephaly. Found in individuals with Guillain-Barre syndrome Microcephaly - Answer Abnormal brain develop...

diffusion - Answer The process by which substances move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration What determines the direction in which substances diffuse? - Answer high to low concentration What factors can play a role in the speed of diffusion? - Answer temperature and concentration (directly associated) molecular weight (indirectly associated) What is osmosis? What specific substance travels through osmosis? What structure is involved? - A...

market saturation - Answer longer a product exists in the marketplace, the more likely it is that the market will become saturated reasons firms create new products - Answer changing customer needs market saturation managing risk through diversity fashion cycles improving business relationships diffusion of innovation - Answer process by which the use of an innovation spreads throughout a market group pioneers - Answer breakthroughs; first movers; establish ...

exchange rate - Answer the measure of how much one country's currency is worth in relation to another country's currency to assess economic analysis using metrics, you must look at ... - Answer general economic environment, market size and population growth, real income Marketers must adapt their global distribution strategies for developing countries because: - Answer foreign firms often cannot reach them easily, consumers lack adequate transportation to central sh...