UIUC IB 150 FINAL EXAM 2024 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

List the five characteristics all organisms on Earth share - correct answer 1. Energy 2. Cells 3. Information (Regulates reactions/Info from the environment) 4. Replication 5. Evolution Explain why the first four are required for life - correct answer -to stay alive and reproduce -cells to grow; membrane regulates the passage of materials b/w exterior and interior spaces -genetic information, responding to the environment, and adjust to maintain homeostasis -population continues to evolve Understand how the ability to perform work is related to being alive - correct answer if a cell doesn't have the ability to do work then it dies (moves to state of equilibrium) and eventually all your cells will die and you wont be able to stay alive First Law of Thermodynamics - correct answer Energy cannot be created nor destroyed Second Law of Thermodynamics - correct answer Gibbs Free Energy- G=H-TS; no energy transfer is ever 100% efficient Use the First Law of Thermodynamics to explain how chemical reactions transfer energy from one mole