Notes on all the Units

FOR ORGANIC MOLECULES:

• Can't Lick Noses Properly - Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic Acids

FOR CELL CYCLE:

• Phases of Cell Cycle : I Poop More After Tacobell Chalupas → Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokinesis

FOR CATIONS AND ANIONS:

• Cats have paws → Cations are pawsitive

• ANions are ANal → Anions are therefore, negative

FOR OSMOSIS:

• HypOtonic solution - cell swells up like an "O"

• HypERtonic solution - cell shrivels up and go "BERRRRRR"

• Hypertonic solutions, have a high concentration of solutes → too much sugar makes you hyper

FOR CELL ORGANELLES

• Nucleus sounds like Neuron → so it’s the brain of the cell

FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS:

• Cows Eat Wet Grass Outside → CarbonDioxide + Energy + Water = Glucose + Oxygen

FOR DNA:

• C & G go together cause they’re both curvy, A & T go together cause they’re straight lines

• PYramidines : CUT a pizza Py (read : pie) → Cytosine, Uracil and Thymine

  • and pyramidines are a single circle, cause a pizza py (read:pie) is a circle

  • the other two (adenine and guanine) are therefore purines and double rings

• C & G have THREE bonds between the, cause C is the third letter of the alphabet

FOR WATER PROPERTIES

• CASHES - Cohesion, Adhesion, Surface tension, High heat capacity, Expansion on freezing

FOR OXIDATION AND REDUCTION:

• LEO says GER - Loss of Electrons is Oxidation, Gain of Electrons is Reduction

• OIL RIG - Oxidation is Loss, Reduction is Gain

FOR THE TAXA:

• Dumb Kings Play Chess On Fragile Glass Stools → Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CELLULAR RESPIRATION:

• N-A-D and F-A-D take H and e to the E-T-C to make A-T-P

  • basically just summarises the overall cellular respiration stuff in case you forget

• NADPH → p for photosynthesis

  • NADH for cellular respiration → no p, not photosynthesis

FOR PHENOTYPE:

• PHenotype → PHysical appearance

FOR TRANSCRIPTION & TRANSLATION

• Rude Piece Of Shit → Regulator, Promoter, Operator, Structural gene

• INtrons go IN the trash

• EXons are EXpressed

• Ribosome sites → A (arrive), P (park), E (exit)

FOR XYLEM AND PHLOEM:

• XY sounds like HIGH → xylem goes up

• PHLO sounds like LOW → phloem goes down

• Phloem carries "food" → sounds like "ph" in food

  • Xylem carries the other thing → water

FOR VALVES OF THE HEART :

• Try Pulling My Aorta → Tricuspid, Pulmonary, Mitral, Aorta