Monomers and Polymers
What are small building blocks that can be repeated called?
Monomers
what elements does carbohydrates have in it
Carbon oxygen and hydrogen
what 3 elements make up lipids?
Carbon hydrogen and oxygen
what 3 elements make up proteins?
Carbon Oxygen Hydrogen and Nitrogen.
what 3 elements make up nucleic acids?
Carbon Oxygen Hydrogen Nitrogen Phosphurus
what is it called when you have two monomers?
dimer
what are the building blocks of carbohydrates?
Monosaccharide
what are the building blocks of lipids?
glycerol and fatty acids
what are the building blocks for protein?
Amino acids.
what is their monomer?
Nucleotides.
what is it called when you have many monomers?
Polymers
Name an example of carbohydrates
etc...
what are lipids used for?
To store long term energy
Structure
Chemical messengers.
what are examples of proteins?
chicken turkey duck
What are two type of nucleic acids?
what is a monomer made of?
atoms or small molecules that bond together
What are carbohydrates used for?
Short term energy.
What shape are unsaturated fats in?
Liquid shape.
how many different type of amino acids are there?
20.
what are the 4 bases of DNA?
Cytosine thymin guanine and adenine
what breaks down polymers?
hydrolysis reactions
what are the 2 different carbohydrates?
Simple and complex
How many double bonds are found in trans fats?
1
what is an amino acid compared to?
the alphabet
How are DNA and RNA different?
Instead of thymine RNA has the base uracil