Pick 2 out of the 4 questions to answer from chapter 3.  Question A: Discuss in detail 2 of the 4 emergent properties of water that contribute to Earth’s suitability of life.  Question B: Describe a water molecule using covalent and hydrogen bonds in your description.  Question C: Describe the pH scale. In your answer make sure to talk about acids, bases, and their ranges. Give examples of acidic, basic, and neutral items.  Question D: How do acids and bases affect living organisms? Pick one of the examples discussed in the textbook to help you answer this question. 

Choose 2 out of the 4 questions to answer from Chapter 1.   Question A. Discuss 3 of the 7 properties of life.  Question B. Differentiate between a negative and positive feedback. In your response include one example for each.  Question C. List the 5 unifying themes discussed in this book and how it relates to the study of biology.  Question D. List the levels of biological organization from lowest to highest. 

What test did we use to test for proteins? What was the color indicator for a positive reaction for proteins? 

Pick 2 out of the 3 questions to answer from Chapter 4.  Question A: Why do we consider carbon to be the backbone of life? Question B: List the 7 functional groups. Pick 3 of them to tell me their properties and 1 example for each.  Question C: What is ATP? In the formula below where is the “energy” coming from?

Write the following numbers in scientific notation.  A. 345,000 B. 0.00000356 C. 87,900 D. 0.0000000000000756

Pick 2 out of the 4 questions to answer from Chapter 2.  Question A: In a couple of sentences tell me why a biologist needs to learn basic chemistry. In your answer you should include at least 2 topics we discussed in chapter 2.  Question B: Differentiate between a covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bond. Make sure to discuss what is happening to the electrons in your answer. Which bonds are considered the strongest? Question C: Describe the basic structure of an atom. Include in your answer: protons, neutrons, and electrons.  Question D: In the question below, what is the reactants and what are the products? Is the equation balanced? If not, provide the balanced equation. 

Explain the difference between a compound light microscope and a dissecting microscope. What would be one limitation of each of these microscopes? Name one “real” life situation where you would use each of these microscopes. 

Complete the following metric conversions.  A. 24nm = ________mmm B. 56mL = ________ kL C. 432m = ________ kL D. 10cm = ________mm

Pick 2 out of the 5 questions to answer from Chapter 5.  Question A: Differentiate between a monosaccharide, disaccharide, and a polysaccharide. Provide 1 example of each in your descriptions.  Question B: What are phospholipids? Why are they important to life? Question C: What are the building blocks of proteins? What is their general structure? What are 4 functions of proteins? Question D: What are the building blocks of nucleic acids? What are their general structures? Differentiate between RNA and DNA.

Read the sentences below. Decide if there is a capitalization error, a punctuation error or the is NO error at all. My sister had her honeymoon in malaysia. She was so happy.