What are amino acids, hydroxyl, carbonyl, phosphate, and sulfhydryl groups?
100
Biologically important hydrophobic molecule that is abundant in cell membranes and lysosomes; permits compartmentalization of cells and subcellular structure
What is a lipid?
100
The sum of all chemical reactions that transform energy and matter within a living organism.
What is metabolism?
200
Biological evolution.
The change in the frequencies of different types of genes over time.
200
The result from electrical attractions between atoms that have gained or lost valence
What is an Ionic Bond?
200
Complex molecules that are based on carbon.
What are inorganic molecules?
200
These types of lipids will self-sort according to their hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties.
What are Phospholipids?
200
The suffix that almost all enzymes end in.
What is -ase?
300
Cells, Multicellular Organisms, Populations, Community, Ecosystem, and Biosphere.
What are the Levels of Organization?
300
This is a pure substance made up of one kind of atom that can’t be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical or physical techniques
What is an element?
300
Isomers that are mirror images of each other are called ________?
What is an enantiomers or Optical isomers?
300
This type of lipid does not have any double bonds between the carbon atoms in the carbon skeleton.
What is a saturated fatty acid?
300
A chemical reaction with a net release of energy.
What is exorgonic?
400
_____was an English Naturalist who traveled abroad the HMS beagle from 1831-1836.
Who was Charles Darwin?
400
Atoms that differ from the stable configuration by more than one or two electrons tend to share electron in joint orbitals with other atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
400
Lipids with structures based on a framework of four focused carbon rings.
What is a steroid?
400
When nonpolar amino acids are close together, these weak electrostatic forces can add stability to the structure.
What are Van Der Waals forces?
400
When the substrate binds at the active site, both molecules are distorted into each other to give an _______.
What is an induced fit?
500
_____ are functional units of genetic information that contain instructions for the other biological molecules, specifically proteins and RNA.
What are genes?
500
Ability to adhere to ions and weaken their attractions.
What is a basis of the polar of nature?
500
Amino acid, hydroxyl, carbonyl, phosphate, and sulfhydryl groups are examples of ______ groups.
What are three common functional groups?
500
A protein secondary structure
What is a "a-hilces"?
500
These bonds are NOT commonly used to stabilize an enzyme-substrate complex