Function Like You Mean It
Macromolecules that primarily function as chemical messengers, make up waterproof coverings, create biological membranes, and store energy long term.
What are lipids?
These bonds hold water molecules together.
What are hydrogen bonds?
All organic molecules contain these elements.
What are carbon - hydrogen - oxygen?
The meaning of saccharide.
What is "sweet"?
Or sugar
List the pyrimidines found in RNA and DNA.
What are cytosine, thymine, and uracil?
Purines are Guanine and Adenine
Macromolecules that primarily function as short term energy sources and structural support, like plant cell walls
What are carbohydrates?
This atom in H20 has a slightly negative charge.
What is oxygen?
This type of triglyceride has a double bond kink causing it to be a liquid at room temperature.
What is an unsaturated fat?
If a person ate pizza for lunch, which macromolecules did they eat? There is dough, tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni in the pizza.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, and protein?
Name the atoms at the end of an R-group (sidechain) on an amino acid that would require it to be hydrophobic.
What are H-CH-SH?
Macromolecules that primarily function as structural support in humans and plants. This type of macromolecule makes up our muscles.
What are proteins?
These two properties allow water to adhere to a penny.
What are cohesion and adhesion?
These macromolecules that contain a phosphate group.
What are Nucleic Acids and sometimes Lipids?
What type of macromolecule is an enzyme?
What is protein?
Proteins can be fully functional at this level of structure.
What is tertiary?
Macromolecules that transfer genetic codes.
What are nucleic acids?
Water resists changes in temperature by absorbing heat energy
What is high specific heat or high heat capacity?
This level of protein structure allows all amino acids to form hydrogen bonds.
What is secondary structure?
All lipid polymers share this characteristic.
What is hydrophobic?
This carbohydrate is stored in the liver for quick release in the event of low blood sugar.
What is glycogen?
very large polymer, made up of smaller structural units called monomers
What are macromolecules?
This process is a result of capillary action in plants.
What is transpiration?
List the four covalent bond types for carbohydrates, lipids, proteins (primary structure) and nucliec acids in this order.
What is glycosidic linkage, ester linkage, peptide bond, and phosphodiester bond?
Name and locate the two bond types in DNA and RNA.
What are phosphodiester bonds in the sugar phosphate backbone and hydrogen bonds between nitrogenous bases?
Name that molecule: Speciment contains 20%A, 30%T, 20%G, 30%C.
What is single stranded DNA?