X Biology Mid Term Review Day 1: Chapters 1-3

If the eyepiece magnifies 10X and the objective lens magnifies 10X, total magnification is? 

These help maintain the proper pH in our cells, can neutralize acids or bases

These are cell parts specialized to perform a specific function? "tiny organs" of cells

The study of life is _______? 

What type of macromolecule is glycogen? 

The smallest unit that can perform all life processes; all living things are made of these. 

Three things that all cells have: 

What happens to an animal cell that has been placed in a hypertonic solution? 

What type of macromolecule is DNA

This is the diffusion of water through a membrane

This part of the atom has a negative charge? 

Animals store excess glucose as glycogen.  What do plants store it as? 

This type of cell has a nucleus

Which cell part makes proteins?

What are the monomer units of carbohydrates?

If a substance has a pH of 2, what would you call it? 

This type of transport moves molecules down their concentration gradients without energy input

What are the monomer units of proteins?

Biological catalysts, these speed up chemical reactions in cells

Type of bond created when electrons are shared

Which cell part moves materials from one area of a cell to another? 

What type of macromolecule are enzymes? 

The smallest particle of an element that retains all of the properties of that element

Because water has unequal sharing of electrons between its oxygen and hydrogens it is

The maintenance of a stable internal state in a changing environment