Organic Compounds
A chemical compound that contains carbon atoms usually bonded to at least one hydrogen atom.
What is an organic compound?
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What is a hydrocarbon?
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An atom or group of atoms that determine the function and properties of the compound.
What is a functional group?
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A group of organic molecules that includes sugars, starches, and cellulose.
What is carbohydrates?
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A biological polymer that stores and transmits genetic information.
What is a nucleic acids?
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Has an atomic number of 6.
What is Carbon?
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Compounds that have the same molecular formula but different structural arrangements.
What is an isomer?
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a group that contains two atoms-oxygen and hydrogen.
What is the hydroxyl group?
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Contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
What is a natural polymer?
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The thing that determines how you look and how your body functions.
What is genetic information?
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A chemical bond formed by sharing one or more pairs of electrons between atoms.
What is covalent bonding?
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What is a saturated hydrocarbon?
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The group that contains group 17 halogens-flourine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine.
What is the halide group?
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Things like glucose and fructose.
What is simple sugars?
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The acronym for deoxyribonucleic acid.
What is DNA?
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In the same group as silicon and germanium.
What is Carbon?
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What is an unsaturated hydrocarbon?
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A group that consists of a carbon atom with a single bond to a hydroxyl group and a double bond to an oxygen atom.
What is the carboxyl group?
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The thing made when glucose and fructose combine.
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the five-carbon sugar in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
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What is diamond?
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a hydrocarbon that contains only single bonds.
What is an alkane?
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The group that consists of a nitrogen atom covalently bonded to two hydrogen atoms and its formula is -NH2.
What is the amino group?
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A ribonucleic acid.
What is RNA?
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