Bio 1404 final - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

e - -which of the following is an example of potential rather than kinetic energy a. the flight of an insect foraging for food b. water rushing over Niagara Falls c. the muscle contractions of a person mowing grass d. light flashed emitted by a firefly e. a molecule of glucose -a - -which process in eukaryotic cells will proceed normally whether oxygen (O2) is present of absent a. glycolysis b. the citric acid cycle c. oxidative phosphorylation d. electron transport e. chemiosmosis

BIO 1404: Exam 1 Organisms are composed of what - Answer-Matter What is anything that takes up space and has mass - Answer-Matter Matter is made up of what - Answer-Elements What is a substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reactions - Answer-Element What is a substance consisting of two or more elements in a fixed ratio - Answer-Compound What elements are required by an organism to live and reproduce - Answer-Essential elements What elements are...

Choose the number that corresponds to an exergonic reaction. A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 - -C) 3 -In which compartment does glycolysis take place? A) Extracellular space B) Cytosol C) Mitochondrion D) Golgi apparatus - -B) Cytosol -Where does the carbon atoms in the carbon fixation stage come from? A) Water B) Soil C) Air

Protein kinases are enzymes that transfer the terminal phosphate from ATP to an amino acid residue on the target protein. Many are located on the plasma membrane as integral membrane proteins or peripheral membrane proteins. What purpose may be served by their plasma membrane localization - -They can more readily encounter and phosphorylate other membrane proteins -Which of the following statements is a logical consequence of the second law of thermodynamics - -Every chemical reaction must ...

Muscle cells differ from nerve cells mainly because: - -they express different genes -Cell differentiation always involves: - -the production of tissue-specific proteins -Apoptosis does not involve? - -lysis of the cell -Absence of bicoid mRNA from Drosophila egg leads to the absence of anterior larval body parts and mirror-image duplication of posterior parts. This is evidence that the product of the bicoid gene - -normally leads to the formation of head structures -Proto-oncogenes ...