Structures that have similar functions are said to be __________.

You arrive late to a biological seminar. However, just as you enter the room, you hear the speaker referring to the “amino end” and the “carboxyl end” of a macromolecule. Immediately, you know that they are talking about a __________.

Mendeleev found that when he arranged the known elements according to their atomic mass, the entries in the table exhibited a pattern of chemical properties that repeated itself in groups of eight elements. This led to the generalization now known as __________.

In eukaryotes, mitochondria are the organelles primarily involved in __________.

Isotopes that are unstable and decay when their nucleus breaks up into elements with lower atomic numbers, emitting significant amounts of energy in the process, are called __________.

What is the difference in the bonding between alpha-helix and beta sheets?

A student set up an experiment to test if plants give off water vapor. Fifty pea plants, growing in pots, were covered with individual glass containers and left overnight. The next morning, the inside of each lid was covered in droplets of water. The lab student concluded that plants generally give off water vapor. What critique would you make of the experimental design?

The electronegativity of nitrogen (N) is 3.0, while the electronegativity of hydrogen (H) is 2.1. Knowing this, consider how the electrons will be shared in ammonia (NH 3). What do you predict about the polarity of ammonia?

The functional group below is hydrophobic.

The organelle that can collect, package, modify, and transport molecules is called the __________.