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Living Organisms can include what attributes?
- Growth
- Movement
- Reproduction
- Response to external environment stimuli
- Metabolism
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Define: Metabolism
All of the chemical process that occur in cells, including the breakdown of substances to produce energy, the synthesis of substances necessary for life, and the excretion of waste generated by these processes.
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What is homeostasis?
Roughly constant internal environment despite an ever changing external environment
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The ability to maintain homeostasis requires:
-Complex feedback mechanisms between multiple sensory and physiological systems and is possible only in living organisms.
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What is a requirement for lfe?
water
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What are the 2 elements that what is made up of?
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Elements are the fundamental forms of _______ and are composed of _______ that cannot be broken down by normal physical means such as boiling.
Elements are the fundamental forms of MATTER and are composed of ATOMS that cannot be broken down by normal physical means such as boiling.
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Atoms are the smallest units that have the properties of any given ________.
element.
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Atoms are composed of subatomic particles called:
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Protons have a _____ electric charge
POSITIVE
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Neutrons have a ________ electric charge
uncharged (0)
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What makes up the nucleus of an atom?
protons and nuetrons
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What gives an element their atomic number?
The number of PROTONS.
*All atoms of a particular element have the same number of protons.
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Electrons have a _______ charge.
NEGATIVE
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Where are the negatively charged electrons found in relation to the nucleus?
Outside in the nucleus in an electron cloud.
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What are electrons attracted to?
positively charged nucleus.
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To be considered a neutral atom what must happen?
There must be an equal number of electrons and protons.
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Define ion:
Electrically charged atom
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Water, like other molecules, consist of 2 or more _____ joined by ______ bonds.
Water, like other molecules, consist of 2 or more ATOMS joined by CHEMICAL bonds.
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A substance that dissolves when mixed with another substance is called
Solute
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When a solute is dissolved in a liquid (such as water) the liquid is called a
solvent
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What makes water a good solvent?
It is polar.
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Define: Polar
Different regions or poles of the molecule have different charges.
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Define: Electronegative
The tendency to attract electrons to form a chemical bond.
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Why is the water polar?
Oxygen is more attractive to electrons.
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Electrons in a _______ molecule spend more time near the ______ of the oxygen atom than near the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms.
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When atoms of a molecule carry no partial charge they are said to be:
nonpolar
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Hydrogen Bond
Is a weak chemical bond
Forms when a partially positive hydrogen bond atom is attracted to a partially negative atom.
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Hydrophilic
- Water loving
- Ability to dissolve in water
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Hydrophobic
- water-fearing
- -Do not contained charged atoms
- -They do not easily mix with water
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Chemical reactions are facilitated by
water
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Chemical Reactions - Define:
Changes in the chemical composition of substances.
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Reactants - Define:
Any starting material in a chemical reaction.
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What are the molecules formed as a result of a chemical reaction?
products
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What is cohesion?
The tendency of like molecules to stick together.
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Cohesion is much stronger in _____ than in most liquids because of the sheer number of hydrogen bonds.
Water
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