Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are mainly used by living organisms for this purpose.
What is quick/short-term energy?
Lipids are used by organisms primarily for this type of energy storage.
What is long-term energy storage?
DNA and RNA belong to this group of biomolecules.
What are nucleic acids?
This biomolecule helps build and repair body tissues, including muscles.
What are proteins?
These are the four major biomolecules found in living organisms.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
These three elements make up carbohydrates.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (C,H,O)?
Fats, oil, and waxes all belong to this biomolecules group.
What are lipids?
This is the monomer, or building block, of nucleic acids.
What is a nucleotide?
These are the monomers, or building blocks, of proteins.
What are amino acids?
If you need a quick burst of energy, you should consume foods rich in this biomolecules.
What are carbohydrates?
This is the monomer, or basic building block, of carbohydrates.
What is a monosaccharide (simple sugar)?
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
Every nucleotide contains these three basic parts.
What are a sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base?
Proteins contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and this element that distinguishes them from carbohydrates and lipids.
What is nitrogen?
What is protein?
This common monosaccharide has the chemical C6H12O6 and is an important energy source for cells.
What is glucose?
This type of lipid is a major component of the cell membrane and has a hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tails.
What is a phospholipid?
What is DNA?
This type of protein speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.
What is an enzyme?
This biomolecule stores heredity and genetic information and is the only one of the four that contains nucleotides.
Nucleic acids
Plants store excess glucose in this polysaccharide, while animals store excess glucose as glycogen.
What is starch?
Unlike saturated fats, these fats contain one or more carbon-carbon double bonds, causing bends or "kinks" in their fatty acid chains.
What are unsaturated fats?
DNA contains this sugar, while RNA contains ribose.
What is deoxyribose?
What is a peptide bond?
A student compares butter, bread, chicken, and DNA. Butter represents lipids, bread represents carbs, and DNA represents nucleic acids. This biomolecule is represented by the chicken.
Protein