Untitled Flashcards Set

1. What is turgor pressure?
2. What is a concentration gradient?
3. What is diffusion?
4. What is osmosis?
5. What is an isotonic solution? What is its effect on the cell?
6. What is a hypertonic solution? What is its effect on the cell?
7. What is a hypotonic solution? What is its effect on an animal cell? What is its effect on a plant
cell?
8. What is the difference between passive transport and active transport?
9. What substances would require energy to move across the cell membrane?
10. What is the difference between passive transport and facilitated diffusion?
11. What is exocytosis?
12. What is pinocytosis?
13. What is endocytosis?
14. The ultimate source of energy of almost all organisms living on earth is ______?
15. What is the difference between a heterotroph, and an autotroph?
16. What do you call the group of organisms that make their own food?
17. These structures allow for gases to enter and leave plants.
18. What are the two gases that are cycled through the process of photosynthesis and cellular
respiration?
19. What are 3 factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis?
20. What type of organisms use anaerobic respiration?
21. In what organelle does photosynthesis occur?
22. What is the process by which pigments are separated using a solvent and porous paper?
23. Pigments such as xanthophylls and Carotenoids help chlorophyll capture light, they are called:
24. Which wavelengths of light are most absorbed by chlorophyll molecules?
25. Why do leaves change color in the fall?
26. Which step of respiration is known as the energy investment phase?
27. Which step of respiration will occur regardless of the presence of Oxygen?
28. What is the job of the mitochondria in cellular respiration?
29. Which molecule has more energy ATP or ADP?
30. What is the process by which certain bacteria food from the sulfur coming from the vents in the
earth’s crust?
31. What are the two final waste products produced in cellular respiration?
32. What type of organisms undergo photosynthesis?
33. What type of organisms undergo cellular respiration?
34. What determines whether an organism undergoes aerobic or anaerobic respiration?
35. What are the byproducts of anaerobic respiration (fermentation)?
36. What process causes muscles to ache when they are over-worked

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