Vocabulary
The Nature of Matter
Properties of Water
Carbon Compounds
Chemical Reactions and Enzymes
100
Weak acids or bases that can react with strong acids or bases to prevent sharp, sudden changes in pH.
What is buffer?
100
Comes from the Greek word atomos, meaning "unable to be cut".
What is an atom?
100
Evenly distributed components of a mixture.
What is a solution?
100
The small units that join together to make polymers.
What is a monomer?
100
Process that changes, or transforms, one set of chemicals into another
What is chemical reaction
200
The attraction between a hydrogen atom on one water molecule and the oxygen atom on another.
What is hydrogen bond?
200
The subatomic particles that make up atoms.
What is protons, neutrons, and electrons?
200
Uneven distribution of electrons between oxygen and hydrogen atoms.
What is polarity?
200
Element that bonds with hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur and nitrogen to form the molecules of life.
What is carbon?
200
Substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction
What is a catalyst
300
The reactants of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
What is substrate?
300
The total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is mass number?
300
Attraction between molecules of a different substance.
What is adhesion?
300
The four major types of macromolecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and proteins?
300
Affects the activity of enzymes
What is temperature, ph, and regulatory molecules
400
Intermolecular forces of attraction.
What is van der Waals forces?
400
The main types of chemical bonds.
What is ionic and covalent bonds?
400
Dissolved substance in a solvent
What is a solute?
400
Nucleic acids contain nucleotides that consist of three parts.
What are 5-carbon sugars, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?
400
Speeds up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
500
Single sugar molecules
What is monosaccharides?
500
Isotopes with unstable nuclei, and that break down at a constant rate over time.
What is radioactive isotopes?
500
An acid has more H+ solutions while a base has more:
What is OH- or hydroxide?
500
Lipids containing one carbon-carbon double bond in a fatty acid.
What is unsaturated?
500
Starts the chemical reaction.
Whats is activation energy?
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