What is botany? - ✔✔ The Study of plants
Marcello Malpighi - ✔✔ Who is said to be the "Father of Histology"?
Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) -
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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species - ✔✔ Binomial Nomenclature
Dendrochronology - ✔✔ tree ring dating
How many elements are naturally occurring? - ✔✔ 92
Isotope - ✔✔ Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons
Positive and Negative Charges do what to each other? - ✔✔ Attract
Anion - ✔✔ A negatively charged ion that has taken on electrons
Cation - ✔✔ A positively charged ion that has given away electrons
Octet rule - ✔✔ electrons want to fill the outer most shell
Orbiting electrons tend to do what? - ✔✔ Form Pairs
Valence Electrons - ✔✔ Outer shell electrons
Covalent Bonds - ✔✔ Sharing of electrons
Non-polar covalent bonds - ✔✔ equal sharing of electrons
How many valence electrons does Carbon have? - ✔✔ four
Polar Covalent - ✔✔ sharing of electrons is not equal and is not balanced
Concentration of H+ is known as what? - ✔✔ The acidity of a solution measured in pH
Increased H+ - ✔✔ Acid
Decreased H+ - ✔✔ Base
pH is the inverse of what? - ✔✔ log (-log)
A polymer is what? - ✔✔ lots of monomers put together
What is a monomer? - ✔✔ a molecule that can be bonded to other identical molecules to form a polymer.
Carbohydrate - ✔✔ Monomer: Monosaccharides Polymer: Polysaccharides
Lipid - ✔✔ Monomer: Glycerol and Fatty Acids Polymer: Fat and oils
Protein - ✔✔ Monomer: Amino Acid Polymer: Protein
Nucleic Acid - ✔✔ Monomer: Nucleotide Polymer: DNA, RNA, and ATP
Isomers are what? - ✔✔ Have the same chemical formula but in different arrangements
Mono
Di
Poly - ✔✔ 1
2 (2 monosaccharides)
several
-ose - ✔✔ sugar
Carbohydrates are mostly what? - ✔✔ Starches
Starch is composed of what? - ✔✔ 20-1000 glucose molecules Alpha 1, 4 Glycosidic
Amylose (starch) - ✔✔ unbranched
Amylopectin - ✔✔ branched starch
Cellulose - ✔✔ A compound of glucose that is common in the cell walls of many organisms. Held together with a Beta 1, 4 glycosidic
Hydrogen bonds become crossed linked with other polysaccharides on the cell surface to form what? - ✔✔ Cell Wall
Glycoproteins - ✔✔ Sugar proteins
Oligosaccharides - ✔✔ 3-10 monosaccharides
Proteins - ✔✔ Unbranched polymers of 100-200 amino acids
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) - ✔✔ compound used by cells to store and release energy [Show Less]