Organization,metabolism,responsiveness,movement,development,and reproduction.
Answer:
Step 1. A carboxyl group is removed from pyruvate, releasing a molecule of carbon dioxide into the surrounding medium. (Note: carbon dioxide is one carbon attached to two oxygen atoms and is one of the major end products of cellular respiration. ) The result of this step is a two-carbon hydroxyethyl group bound to the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase; the lost carbon dioxide is the first of the six carbons from the original glucose molecule to be removed. This step proceeds twice for every molecule of glucose metabolized (remember: there are two pyruvate molecules produced at the end of glycolysis); thus, two of the six carbons will have been removed at the end of both of these steps.
Step 2. The hydroxyethyl group is oxidized to an acetyl group, and the electrons are picked up by NAD+, forming NADH (the reduced form of NAD+). The high- energy electrons from NADH will be used later by the cell to generate ATP for energy.
Step 3. The enzyme-bound acetyl group is transferred to CoA, producing a molecule of acetyl CoA. This molecule of acetyl CoA is then further converted to be used in the next pathway of metabolism, the citric acid cycle.
Answer:
Darwin's Natural Selection Worksheet Read the following situations and fill in the chart for each of the four parts of Darwin's theory of
natural selection.
D There is a species of worms that eat at night (nocturnal) and ones that eat during the
day (diurnal). The birds eat during the day and seem to be eating ONLY the diurnal
worms. The nocturnal worms are in their burrows during this time. Each spring when
the worms reproduce, they have about 500 babies but only 100 of these 500 ever
become old enough to reproduce.
Overproduction:
Genetic Variation:
Selection:
Adaptation:
Explanation:
Answer:
Spontaneous generation, the hypothetical process by which living organisms develop from nonliving matter.
Explanation:
In 1668, Francesco Redi, an Italian scientist, designed a scientific experiment to test the spontaneous creation of maggots by placing fresh meat in each of two different jars. One jar was left open; the other was covered with a cloth. Days later, the open jar contained maggots, whereas the covered jar contained no maggots. He did note that maggots were found on the exterior surface of the cloth that covered the jar. Redi successfully demonstrated that the maggots came from fly eggs and thereby helped to disprove spontaneous generation.
