Macromolecules
This macromolecule can be quickly used for energy in the human body.
What are carbohydrates?
What is a cell wall?
The second law of thermodynamics states that this is always increasing.
Water molecules can create this many hydrogen bonds.
What is 4?
These atoms make up a hydroxyl group.
What are oxygen and hydrogen?
There are 20 types of these monomers that make up Proteins.
What are amino acids?
This part of a phospholipid makes up the hydrophobic region of the cell membrane.
What is the fatty acid tail?
What is negative?
This helps regulate the temperature in coastal areas.
What is water's high specific heat?
What is 4?
DNA, a nucleic acid, can tightly wrap around histones to form these, of which humans have 23 pairs.
What are chromosomes?
These specialized macromolecules facilitate the movement of molecules in and out of the cell.
What are proteins?
Processes that take energy are called this.
What is endergonic?
When water molecules stick to other surfaces, it is called this.
What is adhesion?
This single atom is the difference between Deoxyribose and Ribose sugars.
What is oxygen?
This causes the "kinks" in a unsaturated fatty acids.
What is a double bond (between carbons)?
This "turbine" can both use and produce ATP by taking in or pushing out hydrogen ions.
What is a proton pump?
This type of transport across the cell membrane does not require energy.
What is passive transport?
What are nonpolar molecules?
A pH of 5 is this many times more acidic than a pH of 7.
What is 100?
This "helper" assists in the proper folding of proteins.
What is a chaperonin?
These molecules help cells communicate and recognize one another.
What are glycoproteins?
H+-Sucrose Cotransporters are an example of this, when exergonic processes are used to drive endergonic processes.
What is energy coupling?
Damp surfaces disrupt these forces, causing a gecko to fall off.
What are Van der Waal forces?
4-hydroxybutanal contains these two functional groups.
What are a hydroxyl and aldehyde (carbonyl) group?