When you did your hand wash experiment, you decided a variable to test, say, hot vs cold water, you called this variable an “experimental variable” since it was the variable you were testing experimentally. In order to get meaningful data, you need to keep other things the same, for example the washing time had to be the same for both, you called the washing time a _Control_______ variable.…
3. Obtain three test tubes and measure and place 1 gram of sodium polyacrylate into each.…
It adds complimentary ribonucleotides and a promoter is the base sequence in the DNA that signals the start of a gene.…
3) Acoelomates lack a body cavity because the __________ cells completely fills the area between the outer epidermis and digestive tract.…
Dehydration Synthesis (Condensation): two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom are removed from the monomers to form water, and the two monomers are joined together.…
BSC2011C Final Review Unit 1 Review Ch. 25, 22, 23, 24, 26, 19, 27 Ch. 25 1. Life is metabolism and heredity. Metabolism is the mechanism that creates order and complexity from chaos, by acquiring and expending energy. Heredity is the ability of an organism to copy itself and it is broken down into: i. Multiplication, ii. Inheritance, iii. Variation. 2. DNA codes via RNA for 20 of naturally occurring amino acids. Amino Acids are the building blocks of proteins and bodies. DNA stores and transmits hereditary information, but proteins do most of the work. DNA IS THE UNIVERSAL DIGITAL CODE FOR LIFE. To replicate and synthesize proteins, DNA relies on the pre-existence of protein molecules and RNA molecules. 3. RNA is the bridge between DNA and proteins, via mRNA for transcription and rRNA for translation. Thus, RNA can survive on its own while DNA relies on the existence of RNA and proteins, with them DNA is helpless. 4. The 4 points of “first life” are: 1. The Abiotic (non-living) synthesis of small organic molecules, such as amino acids and nucleotides. 2. The joining of these small molecules into macromolecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. 3. The packing of these molecules into “protobionts,” droplets with membranes hat maintained an internal chemistry different from that of their surroundings. 4. The origin of self-replicating molecules that eventually made inheritance possible. 5. The first cells to develop occurred in this order: Monomers > Polymers > Protobionts > RNA ‘world’ > DNA protobionts > first cell. 6. Fossils are the evidence of life and evolution. Organisms trapped in sediment > remain mineralized with hard and soft parts. 7. Fossils can be dated by two methods: Radiometric dating & Magnetism. In Radiometric dating, the age is based on the decay of radioactive isotopes. A radioactive “parent” isotope decays to a “daughter” isotope at a constant rate. The rate of decay is expressed by the half-life, the time requires for 50% of the parent…
If you grow yeast in a sealed test tube filled with water and a food source, do you think these growth conditions are aerobic or anaerobic?…
A Dependent Variable is the variable that is getting recorded, made by the changes of the independent variable.…
1. Which is the smallest unit of life that can survive and reproduce on its own?…
Imagine that there is a mutation in the cyclin gene such that its gene product is nonfunctional. What kind of effect would this mutation have on a skin cell in the area of a cut?…
What is the study hypothesis? If it is not stated, what would you say the hypothesis is? (4)…
4. Rewrite your topic area as a research questions i.e. A hypothesis / or statement?…
34) The linear sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain is referred to as its ______ structure.…
B) A theory is an explanation for a very general phenomenon or observation; hypotheses treat more specific observations.…
Obsevations (i.e., dependent variables) that occur in one of two possible states, often labelled zero and one. E.g., “improved/not improved” and “completed task/failed to complete task.” Usually an independent or predictor variable that contains values indicating membership in one of several possible categories. E.g., gender (male or female), marital status (married, single, divorced, widowed). The categories are often assigned numerical values used as lables, e.g., 0 = male; 1 = female. Synonym for nominal variable. A variable that obscures the effects of another variable. If one elementary reading teacher used used a phonics textbook in her class and another instructor used a whole language textbook in his class, and students in the two classes were given achievement tests to see how well they read, the independent variables (teacher effectiveness and textbooks) would be confounded. There is no way to determine if differences in reading between the two classes were caused by either or both of the independent variables. A variable that is not restricted to particular values (other than limited by the accuracy of the measuring instrument). E.g., reaction time, neuroticism, IQ. Equal size intervals on different parts of the scale are assumed, if not demonstrated. Synonym for interval variable. An extraneous variable that an investigator does not wish to examine in a study. Thus the investigator controls this variable. Also called a covariate. The presumed effect in a nonexperimental study. The presumed effect in an experimental study. The values of the dependent variable depend upon another variable, the independent variable. Strictly speaking, “dependent variable” should not be used when writing about nonexperimental designs. Synonym for binary variable Variable having only integer values. For example, number of trials need by a student to learn a memorization task.…