Name
Date
Biology Exam 1 Review
Terms
Reductionism
System Biology
Vitalism
Negative Feedback
Positive Feedback
Adaptive radiation
Atom
Element
Anion
Cation
Bonds
Covalent
Ionic
Hydrogen
Adhesion
Cohesion
Hydrophobic
Hydrophilic
Dehydration synthesis
Hydrolysis
Denaturation
Concepts:
1. What are the levels of biological organization within an organism?
2. Give an example of each of the major themes of biology.
3. What is the ultimate source of energy on Earth? How is this energy transferred to living things?
4. Complete the table below
Polymer
Monomer
Nucleic Acid
Protein
Carbohydrate
Fats
Example in living organisms
5. Name and explain an example of both positive and negative feedback.
6. What is evolution? What is required for evolution to happen?
7. How do we make sense of the biodiversity of Earth? In other words, how do we classify living things?
8. Please compare and contrast between anabolism and catabolism.
9. What is important about valence electrons in the context of bonding?
10. What is the difference between a polar and a non-polar covalent bond?
11. How is the function of any molecule determined?
12. What gives water such a high specific heat?
13. How do organisms use internal water to cool their bodies? Give two examples.
14. What is the chemical difference between an acid and a base?
15. What makes carbon so essential in building large biological molecules?
16. What are isomers and why are the biologically important?
17. What chemicals reduce the energy needed for chemical reactions to occur in living things? What
class of molecules do this?
18. How do plants store large amounts of sugars? How do animals?
19. What makes organic molecules digestible?
20. Why is energy needed for dehydration synthesis but released in hydrolysis?
21. What jobs can proteins accomplish in living things? Name and explain at least 3 examples.
22. What makes fats insoluble in water?
23. Why are phospholipids important?
24. What is the central dogma of biology?
25. What affect the shape of a protein? (three factors)
26. What are the four levels of protein conformation?
27. What are the major differences between DNA and RNA in structure? In function?
28. What is the name of the biological process that makes RNA? That makes proteins?
29. What is a mutation? Or mutations good or bad?
30. What is sickle-cell anemia and what causes it?