Study Guide-10 Biology 1004
North Arkansas College
Topic: Biology Study Guide Lab Test- #1
1. What is the smallest thing that the human eye is constructed to see?
2. The maximum magnification with the unaided eye occurs when the object is viewed how far from the eye?
3. What is the diameter of the average eukaryotic cell?
4. What is the diameter of the average prokaryotic cell?
5. What is the diameter of the average virus?
6. What is the most important property of the microscope?
7. What is resolving power?
8. What are the types of microscopes?
9. What are the characteristics of the simple microscope?
10. What are the characteristics of the compound brightfield microscope?
11. What is the magnification of the eye piece (ocular)?
12. What is the diameter of smallest observable object?
13. What is the magnification of the lowest power lens? And with the ocular used as well?
14. What is the magnification of the high power lens? And with the ocular used as well?
15. What is the magnification of the oil immersion lens? And with the ocular used as well?
16. What are the four basic chemical molecules of all living cells?
17. Carbohydrates are composed of what molecules?
18. What are the basic classes of carbohydrates?
19. What is a monosaccaride?
20. What is a disaccaride?
21. What is a polysaccaride?
22. What is an Alpha 1,4 Bond?
23. What enzyme breaks down or cleaves the Alpha 1,4 Bond?
24. What enzyme breaks down or cleaves the Beta 1,4 Bond?
25. How do you detect free reducing sugars?
26. What is the procedure for testing with Benedicts Reagant?
27. How is starch detected and what is the color?
28. What are proteins composed of?
29. What two functional groups do the amino acids have?
30. Proteins are broken down by what enzymes?
31. Proteins are detected by what reageant?
32. What is the color of the reageant when proteins are present?
33. What are the classes of Lipids?
34. What is the most common lipid?
35. Neutral fats are made of what two components?
36. The two components combine to lose what and to form what polarity of neutral fat?
37. Are neutral fats soluble in water?
38. How are lipids detected? What is the procedure?
39. What is adipose tissue?
40. What are emulisifiers?
41. What is the function of the cell membrane?
42. Define Hydrophillic:
43. Define Hydrophobic:
44. What are the two major types of membrane transport?
45. What are the three types of passive transport?
46. What are the types of active transport?
47. Define isotonic:
48. Define Hypertonic:
49. Define Hypotonic:
50. Define turgid:
51. Define Tonicity:
52. What is the solvent?
53. What is the solute?
