Organic Compounds
Water
Chemical Reactions
Acids & Bases
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100
All organic compounds contain this element.
What is carbon?
100
These elements bind to form water.
What are hydrogen and oxygen.
100

The "lock and key" model describes how an enzyme interacts with this.

What is the substrate?

100
This is the pH of distilled water.
What is 7?
100
In this bond, electrons are shared.
What is a covalent bond?
200

This organic compound is found in the cell membrane and is both hydrophobic and hydrophilic.

What are phosphlipids?

200
These are the strongest intermolecular bonds found in water.
What are hydrogen bonds?
200
This is where the substrate attaches to the enzyme.
What is the activation site?
200
This type of solution contains higher concentrations of H+ ions than pure water.
What are acidic solutions?
200
This is the ratio that carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms exist in carbon containing compounds.
What is 1:2:1?
300
This is made from a polypeptide chain and has four levels of organization.
What is a protein.
300
This allows living organisms to survive in water throughout the winter.
What is water's density?
300
Enzymes lower this.
What is activation energy?
300
What is the highest pH value a base can have?
What is 14?
300

To proteins, amino acids are an example of this.

What is a monomer?

400
These are monomers of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
400
This makes water the universal solvent.
What is polarity?
400
6Co2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2 The compounds on the left side of the arrow are called these.
What are reactants?
400
This is the purpose of buffers.
What is to maintain homeostasis?
400
The three components of a nucleotide ...
What is a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?
500
Fats with one or more double bonds are called this.
What is unsaturated fat?
500
This property explains why water can travel up the stem of a plant against the force of gravity.
What is adhesion?
500
This is why the denaturing of an enzyme is a functional issue.
What is the configuration (shape) changes?
500
This is affected when the pH of the cells in the body change.
What are chemical reactions?
500
Olive oil is this type of lipid.
What is a unsaturated lipid?
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