Study Guide Midterm 2015
Use your textbook and notes to make study notes on the concepts below, you can use your notes on Tuesday for a review game to earn extra credit
Study Hints: keep reading over your study notes. Keep reviewing your vocabulary.
Ch.1 Biology in the 21st Century
Know the correct order of steps for scientific method and what is require within each step
Know what a controlled experiment is, and what variables are (Define: controlled, independent and dependent variables)
Know the difference between a hypothesis, theory and a law
Know why you would use a compound light microscope verses an electron microscope
Know what an inference is
Know what science is and is not
Ch.2 Chemistry of life
Know the properties of water: hydrogen bonding, polarity, cohesive and adhesive, moderate temperature, freezing and a solvent
What is a catalyst and an enzyme?
Know how enzymes affect chemical reactions
Know how temperature and pH affects enzymes
Know what activation energy is
Know what a substrate is
Know why we need fats, carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids (functions). Know their basic structure
Difference between polymers and monomers
Ch.3 Cells
Know how cell theory developed
Difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes
Know the function of the cell and its organelles
Focus on: cytoplasm, nucleus, mitochondria, chloroplast, cell wall and cell membrane, ribosome, nuclear envelope, nucleolus, chromatin, endoplasmic reticulum, cytoskeleton, vacuoles, golgi apparatus, lysosomes, cilia, flagellum
Difference between animal and plant cells
Know the structure of the cell membrane
Know the function of the cell membrane
Know difference between diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion and active transport
with particular reference to whether energy is needed
Know what happens to cells when placed in the following solutions: isotonic, hypertonic, hypotonic
Ch.4 Cells and Energy
Difference between ATP and ADP and how energy is transfered
Photosynthesis
Know overall reactants and products of photosynthesis
Know the two reactions and where they take place
Cellular Respiration
Know overall reactants and products of cellular respiration
Know the order of the three reactions and were they take place
Difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Know the two types of fermentation and examples
Know relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration in plants
Ch. 21 Plant Structure and function
Know the functions of leaves Include:guard cells, stomata, xylem and phloem
Know what transpiration is
Ch.5 Cell Growth and Division
List the stages of the cell cycle, know what happens in each
List correct order of mitosis phases and cytokinesis, know what happens in each
How the cell cycle is controlled: external regulators and internal regulators
What cancer is and how it forms
Ch. 6 Meiosis
The overall idea of meiosis
Difference between diploid and haploid cells
Be able to compare and contrast asexual (by mitosis) and sexual reproduction (meiosis) focus on number of parents, types of cell division, number of daughter cells, genetic make up
Ch.34 Human Reproduction
What are specialized sex cells called?
Function of the female reproductive system
Know zygote, blastocyst, fertilization
Function of the amniotic fluid
Recognize the male and female reproductive structures on a diagram, and their functions