bio 1 exam 1 vocab

Community

multiple species interacting together

Reductionism

Studying of dna to help understand genetics and our traits

Population

All the species in the same location

Ecosystem

All nonliving and living things in an area

Biosphere

All the ecosystems put together

Gene

A piece of dna

Genome

Study of an organisms complete set of dna and its functions

hydrocarbon

Not soluble because they don’t have oxygen or nitrogen

Non- polar= hydrophobic

Cis isomers vs trans isomers

Enantiomers

A type of isomer with the same chemical formula but with different arrangement of atoms

Functional group

Group of atoms that are prevalent in atoms

Hydroxyl group

OH

Carbonyl group

Organic, polar and hydrophilic

Carboxyl group

Polar and acidic

Amino group

Polar and basic

Amino acid

Sulfhydrl group

SH

Phosphate group

Polar, always have a negative charge

Methyl group

Non polar

Hydrolysis

Breaks down a polymer

Fructose

Fruit sugar

Glucose

Blood sugar

Carbohydrates

Give short term energy

Sugars = monosaccharides (building blocks)

Polysaccharides

Give long term energy storage and structure

Cellulose

Plant sugar, build cell walls, structural polysaccharide

Chitin

Found in cell walls of fungi and insects; structural polysaccharide

Steroids

-nonpolar And hydrophobic

Acidic if they have carboxyl groups

Basic if they have amino groups

A/an

Not

Meso

Between

Leuko

White/colorless

Aero

Air

Anti

Against

Amphi

Both

Aqua/hydro

Water

Arthro

Joint

Bi/di

Two

Bio

Life

Cephal

Head

Chloro

Green

Chrome

Color

Code

Killer

Cato

Cell

Derm

Skin

Haplo

Single/simple/half

Ecto

Outside

Ending

Within

Epi

Upon

Gastro

Stomach

Genesis

Origin/birth

Herbs

Grass

Hetero

Different

Homo

Same

Ov

Egg

Kart

Nucleus of a cell

Neuro

Nerve

Soma

Body

Saccharo

Sugar

Primi/archea

First/ancient

Phyll

Leaf

Hemp

Blood

Hyper

Above

Hypo

Beneath

In-Training

Within

-itis

Inflammation

Lateral

On the side

-logy

Study of

-lysis

Breaking down

-Meter

An instrument of measuring

Mono

One

Morph

Form of shape

Micro

Small

Macro

Large

Multi/poly

Many

Pod

A foot

-phobia

Irrational fear

-Phillia

Attraction

Proto

Earliest

Photo

Light

Pseudo

False/lying

Synthesis

Making

Sub

Under

Troph

Nourishment

Therm

Heat

Tri

Three

Zoo, zoa

Animal

-tropism

Tendency to turn or grow

-taxis

Oriented movement of a motile organism to an external stimulis

-stasis

Equilibrium

Zyg/zygous

Joined

Phago

To eat

Path/pathy

Suffering

Sym/syn

Together

Hydrology

The study of the movement and distribution of water through ecosystems

Cytolysis

The break down of cells

Protozoa

Diverse microscopic unicellular eukaryotic organisms

Epidermis

The outermost layer of tissue covering an organisms body

Spermatogenesis

Process in males where immature germ cells develop into sperm cells

Exoskeleton

A rigid external covering that provides structural support

Abiotic

The non-living chemical and physical components of an ecosystem