Chapter 2 test

Which is the smallest unit of life?

Cells

Which of the following organisms is NOT unicellular

Fungi

All living things do all of the following EXCEPT:

Communicate

Which of the following is correctly paired?

Cells function in groups called tissues.

Which cells need to have the most mitochondria?

muscle cells

Which organelle uses sugar to create energy?

Mitochondria

Which organelle is where the proteins are made in the cell?

Ribosome

Which of the following would NOT be found in a prokaryote?

Nucleus

What is meant by cell specialization?

There is great cell variety in multicellular organisms in which different kinds of cells have different jobs to do.

Determine whether the cell type is prokaryotic or eukaryotic: Yeast

Eukaryotic

Determine whether the cell type is prokaryotic or eukaryotic: HeLa

Eukaryotic

Determine whether the cell type is prokaryotic or eukaryotic: CHO

Eukaryotic

Determine whether the cell type is prokaryotic or eukaryotic: e. Coli

Prokaryotic

Determine whether the cell type is prokaryotic or eukaryotic: Vero

Eukaryotic

The monomers of proteins are called

Amino acids

What are the most common molecules in cells?

Proteins

All of the following are considered benefits of recombinant insulin over therapeutic insulin derived from livestock EXCEPT:

Livestock insulin may cause cowpox.

By the process of translation,

amino acids are connected together in the order specified by the mRNA molecule.

A DNA message gets transcribed into

an mRNA message.

Amino acids are linked together to form

polypeptides

The widespread use of antibiotics

has caused antibiotic resistance in bacteria to increase.

Which of the following are mammalian cells grown in large-scale cultures for biotechnology purposes?

CHO cells

When streaking an agar plate,

spin the agar plate between each streak.

Determine the function of the protein: Keratin

Structure

Determine the function of the protein: Hemoglobin

Transport

Membrane proteins may have any of the following functions EXCEPT:

Identify other molecules or be recognized by other molecules

All of the following influence the way a polypeptide folds into a functional protein EXCEPT:
The order of amino acids
The amino acid R-groups
The central carbon of each amino acid
The interaction between amino acids

The central carbon of each amino acid

Which statement is true?

Thymine is a Pyrimidine

Nucleotides do NOT include:

A phospholipid

Which of the following is a disaccharide?

Sucrose

Polysaccharides are useful for

providing structure and energy storage within cells.

Phospholipids are found in all of the following EXCEPT:
chromosomes.
Cell membranes
the endoplasmic reticulum.
Nuclear membranes

chromosomes.

Lipids are composed mostly of what atoms?

Carbon and hydrogen

Information carrying molecules within a cell

nucleic acids

Large molecules composed of repeating units of smaller units

macromolecules

Hydrophobic molecules that have specific functions within and around a cell

Lipids

A process were plants and algae use light energy to make to make chemical energy

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Thousands of different types of macromolecules that have various functions within and around the cell

Proteins

Packages of DNA

chromosomes

A six carbon sugar molecule used by cells for making energy

glucose

The process of breaking down food molecules to generate energy

respiration

Molecules containing carbon hydrogen and oxygen in 1:2:1 ratio

carbohydrate

Specialized membrane bound structures that have specialized functions within a cell

organelles

The subunits of proteins, each of which contain an amino group, carboxyl group and functional R group

Amino Acids