Biology class

1. If I wanted to test a certain chemical to see if it made mice run faster. What steps would I take to test that? What would be my control? Form a hypothesis.

2. Which requires more energy? A reaction with an enzyme or a reaction without an enzyme?

3.Which has more energy? ATP or ADP?

4. Which has more potential energy? A ball on the ground or a ball at the top of a slide?

5. If I had an unknown liquid, how could I test to see if it was polar or non polar?

6. What are three characteristics of water that are essential to life on earth? And what makes them essential to life?

7. Which has more calories? 1 gram of carbohydrate, 1 gram of protein, or 1 gram of lipids?

8. If a scientist asks you to have "faith" in his science, what would you tell them?

9. Which requires more energy? Passive transport or active transport?

10. If cells lacked cholesterol, what would be the consequences to the cell membrane?

11. If I wanted to make a bean plant with a gene from a apple tree in it- What would be the first few steps I would have to take in the lab?

12. If I was given an unknown liquid and asked to find it's density, how could I do that?

13. If I put pure water into a bag made of a semi permeable membrane and place it into salt water. What will happen to the volume of the water in the bag and why?

14. What is the highest level of protein folding?

15. Why is the lipid bilayer referred to as a fluid and mosaic?

16.How many bonds can carbon make?

17. How many protons are in a Helium atom? And where in the atom are the protons?

18. If something is acidic, does it have a high or low pH? A high or low H+ concentration? Name an acidic liquid in your house.

19. What is something that has some of the characteristics of life, but, is not alive. Describe it and what characteristics of life it might have.

20.Why is it important to test insecticides and chemicals before releasing them into the environment?