BIO155
Study Guide
Fall 2010
Chapter 1
1.
The properties of life
2.
Evolution as the unifying theme in biology (just understand the significance of
evolution, still going on today, explains the diversity of species)
3.
The process of science/ Discovery science/ Hypothesis-Driven
Chapter 2
1.
Basic structure of atom
2.
Types of chemical bonds important to life
3.
Water and its unusual properties
Chapter 3
1.
What are the 4 biomolecules and what are their component monomers/parts
2.
Building polymers from monomers
Chapter 4
1.
Basic difference between light microscope, scanning and transmission electron
microscopes
2.
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
3.
Plant and animal cells: similarities and differences
4.
Organelle function (basic knowledge, e.g. one function for each of the organelles,
their basic structure)
Chapter 5
1.
Understand what kinetic and potential energy are
2.
ATP is a form of potential energy
3.
ATP is essential to power cellular work
4.
The importance of enzymes in lowering activation energy. Parts of an enzyme,
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- Fall '10
- Skoubis
- Biology, Bacteria, Electron Transport Chain, Photosynthesis, Evolution, Adenosine triphosphate
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