Biology Midterm Review
Biology Midterm Review
Chapter 1
- What are the parts of the scientific method?
- What is the difference between independent, dependent, and control variables?
- What are the eight characteristics of all living things?
- What are the three main metric measurements?
Chapter 2
- What is the difference between cohesion and adhesion?
- What is the importance of surface tension?
- Why is water important for life?
- What is the difference between a solute, solvent, and a solution?
- What is the pH scale?
- What is the difference between an acid and a base?
- What are the 4 organic macromolecules of biology?
- What is a carbohydrate? What are some examples of carbohydrates?
- What is a lipid? What are some examples of lipids?
- What is a protein? What are some examples of proteins?
- What is a nucleic acid? What are some examples of nucleic acids?
- What role do enzymes play in the cell? What are some examples of enzymes?
- What factors can effect an enzyme’s function?
- What is the importance of homeostasis in this chapter?
Chapter 7
- What are the three parts of the cell theory?
- What are three differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
- What are two similarities and differences between plant and animal cells?
- What are two differences between plant and animal cells?
- What relationship do ribosomes and the endoplasmic reticulum have?
- What relationship do the endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus have?
- What specific purpose do mitochondria have?
- What is the purpose of the nucleus?
- What is the purpose of the cell membrane and the cell wall?
- What is the relationship between osmosis and diffusion?
- What is the difference between active and passive transport?
- What is the difference between isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic?
- In what ways are cells organized in multicellular eukaryotes?
- What does selectively permeable mean?
- What is the importance of homeostasis to this chapter?
Chapter 8 and 9
- What is ATP?
- What is the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs?
- What major organelle is involved in photosynthesis? Cell respiration?
- What is necessary for photosynthesis? What are the products of photosynthesis?
- What is necessary for aerobic cell respiration? What are the products?
- What are the specific parts of photosynthesis? How are they different?
- What are the specific parts of aerobic cell respiration? How are they different?
- What is the difference between aerobic and anaerobic cell respiration?
- What is the difference between lactic acid and alcohol fermentation?
- What is the importance of homeostasis to these chapters?
Chapter 10
- What are the names of the 4 phases of mitosis?
- What happens in each phase of mitosis?
- What is cytokinesis?
- What are cancer cells?
- What happens during the cell cycle? Be specific about each phase.