Study Guide 1
You will take your first exam on September 20th. It will start at 8:00 AM and it will end at 8:50 AM.
Your first exam will include information from chapter 1 to 5.
It is important that you understand that the questions and concepts below are not literally the questions
that will be on your exam, but if you can work through this information, you should be able to answer the
questions on the exam.
Check your syllabus for office hours and let me know if you want to attend to them.
1. Why sunlight is the ultimate source of energy?
2. What are the levels of organization that we study in biology?
3. Why is it important for living organisms to maintain a constant body temperature and pH?
4. What are eukaryotes? What Kingdoms represent them?
5. What is a hypothesis? Why it must be testable?
6. What is the difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
7. Why do you need a control in an experiment?
8. What is a variable in an experiment?
9. What are the states of matter?
10. What is the atomic mass of an element?
11. What are the most common elements in living organisms?
12. What are the chemical bonds that water molecules can form?
13. What is the pH scale? How it works?
14. With what kind of biomolecules Benedict’s, Iodine and Sudan IV react?
15. What are the possible side effects of anabolic steroids?
16. Why are the advantages and disadvantages of radioactive isotopes?
17. What is the difference between ionic, covalent and hydrogen bonds?
18. What is acid precipitation?
19. What is the function of enzymes?
20. What is the difference between glycogen and starch?
21. What is the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates?
22. Why the consumption of trace elements is important for your health?
23. Give examples of trace elements.
24. What are trans-fats and where can you find them?
25. What is the maximum resolution of light microscopes?
26. What is the difference between a scanning electron microscope and a light or compound microscope?
27. What is the function of Golgi apparatus?
28. What is the function of ribosomes?
29. What is the function of chloroplasts?
30. What is the function of endoplasmic reticulum?
31. What is sexual differentiation?
32. What are the properties of life?
33. How many millimeters equal 1 centimeter?
34. How many millimeters equal 1 meter?
35. How many centimeters equal 1 inch?
36. How many micrometers in a mm?
37. How many feet equal 1 meter?
Be sure that you understand the difference between hydrolysis and dehydration reactions.
Be sure you know the levels of organization in proteins.
Be sure you know the types of lipids.
Be sure you know what a mm and a cm in your printed ruler is
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Isotope
pH
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Hydrocarbon
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Isomer
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Water cohesion
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pH Buffer
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Enzyme
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High-fructose corn syrup
Chitin
Plasma membrane
Nucleus
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Osmosis
Diffusion
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Active transport
Phagocytosis
Prokaryotic organisms
Eukaryotic organisms
Shells or energy
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Hypertonic
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