Study Guide-02 Biology 1004
North Arkansas College
Topic: Biology Study Guide Lecture Test- #2
1. What is a covalent bond?
2. What is an ionic bond?
3. What is the definition of polar?
4. What is the definition of non-polar?
5. What is the backbone of all living organisms?
6. What are the four characteristics of carbon that make it diverse?
7. What would make a covalent bond non-polar?
8. What would make a covalent bond polar?
9. What is the definition of electronegativity?
10. What are cations?
11. What are anions?
12. What is the definition of ionic bonds?
13. What is the definition of oxidation?
14. What is the definition of reducation?
15. What is life? (a process of what two things?
16. What are hydrogen bonds?
17. What are hydrogen bonds most important in?
18. Water is essential to what?
19. What are the characteristics of water that make it so important to life?
20. Water makes up how much of the earths surface?
21. Water makes up what percent of living cells?
22. Water provides what 4 things?
23. What is the specific heat of water?
24. What is the definition of specific heat?
25. Water has a maximum density of what?
26. Why is the density of water so important?
27. How does water ionize?
28. What is an acid?
29. What is a base?
30. What is the ph scale?
31. What is the base range?
32. What is the acid range?
33. What is acid rain?
34. What are the effects of acid rain?
35. What are buffers?
36. What is the purpose of a buffer?
37. What is the ph of blood?
38. What is the buffer in the blood?
39. What are the four major classes of chemical compounds in all life?
40. What are the most common elements of all living things?
41. What is the chemistry of carbon?
42. What is the purpose of functional groups?
43. What are the 4 functional groups?
44. What is the definition of isomers?
45. What is the important thing about isomers?
46. What are some examples of isomers?
47. What are the importance of isomers?
48. What is a monomer?
49. What are examples of monomers?
50. What are monomers composed of?
51. What is a polymer?
52. What is another name for a polymer?
53. What is an example of a polymer?
54. What is dehydration synthesis?
55. What is the importance of dehydration synthesis?
56. What is condensation synthesis?
57. What is hydrolysis?
58. What are the classes of chemicals of life?
59. What is a hextose?
60. What is the most common sugar?
61. What is a pentose?
62. What is an example of a pentose?
63. What are examples of monosaccarides?
64. What are examples of diasaccarides?
65. What are examples of polysaccaride?
66. What is the definition of a polysaccaride?
67. What is the structure of starch?
68. What is the enzyme that breaks down starch?
69. What is an alpha 1, 4 bond?
70. What is a beta 1, 4 bond?
71. What is the straight chain form of starch?
72. Why can’t humans not digest cellulose?
73. What is the function of starch?
74. What is glycogen?
75. What is the structure of glycogen?
76. What is the function of glycogen?
77. Blood contains how much glycogen?
78. What is the structure of cellulose?
79. What is the function of cellulose?
80. What is the structure of chitin?
81. What is the function of chitin?
82. What are the three types of carbohydrates?
83. What is the composition of lipids?
84. What are three characteristics of lipids?
85. What are the several types of lipids?
86. What is a neutral fat?
87. What are neutral fats composed of?
88. What is glycerol?
89. What is unsaturated?
90. What is saturated?
91. What is the use fullness of lipids to living things?
92. What are waxes?
93. What is the composition of waxes?
94. What are examples of waxes?
95. What is the function of waxes?
96. What are steroids?
97. What are examples of steroids?
98. What are most cells composed of?
99. Phosopholipids are an important constituent of cell membrane?
100. What is a phospholipid bi-layer?
101. What is hyrdophillic?
102. What is hydrophobic?
103. What do phosopholipids contain?
104. What is a protein?
105. What is the monomer of proteins?
106. How do amino acids join together?
107. What is a peptide bond?
108. What are the 4 structures of a polypeptide?
109. Approximately how much of the body weight is protein?
110. What is the composition of nucleotides?
111. What are the chemical bases of a nucleotide?
112. What types of compounds are nucleotides building blocks for?
113. What is the basic structure of DNA?
114. What is the basic structure of RNA?
115. What is the composition of DNA?
116. What bonds with what in DNA?
117. What is the function of DNA?
118. What is replaced in RNA?
119. What is thyamine replaced with in RNA?
120. What is the phenotype?
121. What is the genotype?
122. What and where are the genes located?
123. How is DNA read?
124. The orientation of the strands of DNA is determined by what?
125. The two strands of DNA are held together by what?
126. What are the three types of RNA?
127. What are the similarities between RNA and DNA?
128. What are the differences between RNA and DNA?
129. What is the process of protein synthesis?
130. What two processes are involved in protein synthesis?
131. What is transcription?
132. What is the process of transcription?
133. What is translation?
134. What are codons?
135. What is the triplet code?
136. What is a mutation?
137. What are the two types of mutations?
138. What is an example of point mutation?
139. What is an example of frame shift mutation?
