Here are the first ten questions from exam I, scrambled and a little reformatted(in some I switched the question and the answer, and I made a few checkboxes instead of just having one right answer).
Compared to when a solution is basic, when a solution is acidic it has...
Answer
the same pH
more free hydrogen ions
fewer total hydrogen ions, both in free and in large molecules
higher pH
Question 3
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The membranes that surround cells are made of many ...
Answer
triglycerides
nucleic acids
starches
micelles
phospholipids
Question 4
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The polarity of water...
Answer
means that protons are more often found by oxygen, not hydrogen
makes water magnetic
arises from the difference in electronegativity between oxygen and hydrogen
allows water to make covalent bonds
allows water to make hydrogen bonds
Question 5
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The polysaccharide most likely to be a structural part of a plant is
Answer
glycogen
cellulose
ATP
chitin
Question 6
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The fatty acid tails of phospholipids are...
Answer
hydrophilic
made of steroids
hydrophobic
facing inside the cell
made of glycerol
joined to the head by glycerol
facing outside the cell
Question 7
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Insulin receptors are proteins in the membranes of cells. When insulin binds to the receptor it changes the shape of the receptor. The shape change activates a response in the cell. You are studying a new protein that no one has studied before. You find out your protein has the same shape as the insulin receptor. Based on this information, you would predict that your new protein has...
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a similar function to proteins with different shapes
no function-- the protein is denatured
a similar function to the known insulin receptors
a similar protein to the hydrophilic proteins inside the cells
Question 8
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Pasteur studied germ hypothesis when the spontaneous generation hypothesis was still popular. He sterilized broth in a swan neck flask, and then waited to see if living organisms grew. With the swan neck intact, he observed that when he waited he saw...
Answer
no bacterial growth
bacterial growth
data supporting the germ hypothesis
data contradicting the germ hypothesis
data supporting the spontaneous generation hypothesis
Question 9
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Which type of bond holds two different water molecules to each other, or the two halves of a DNA double helix together?
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non-polar covalent bonds
ionic bonds
hydrogen bonds
double covalent bonds
polar covalent bonds
Question 10
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Which two are made of monomers and held together with covalent bonds?