Macromolecules 1
Protein
macromolecule with functions of energy, structure, and cell recognition.
What is Carbohydrates?
What does the ending -ose mean
What is a sugar?
Macromolecule that is important for cell signaling and hormones
Proteins
Cholesterol is what type of macromolecule? And serves what function?
What are lipids? What are chemical messengers or parts of cell membranes?
Name the Macromolecules
What are Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic Acids?
What kind of polymers do Carbohydrates have
What is polysaccharides
What type of fat is solid at room temperature?
What is saturated fats
20 different monomer types
What are amino acids?
I help speed up reactions
What are enzymes ?
Definition of a Polymer
What is a long molecule consisting of many similar building blocks? or long chains of monomers.
The simplest Carbohydrates
What is Monosaccharides or Single sugars?
A polypeptide that stores genetic information and helps produce proteins?
What is a nucleotide?
Sucrose, Lactose, and Maltose are examples of
What is a disaccharide?
I break down into sugars
The single building blocks in a Polymer
What is a Monomer?
Unsaturated fats
What type of fat are oils?
I am a protein that makes proteins
Ribosomes
Starch
What is the name for a long-term energy storage polysaccharide in Plants?
The polymer for nucleotides
What is DNA or RNA? or nucleic acids
Which of the four classes of life’s organic molecules does NOT dissolve in water?
What is Lipids?
Consists of 2 fatty acids and a phosphate group with a hydrophobic tail and hydrophilic head.
What is Phospholipids?
These elements make me organic
What is carbon and hydrogen?
The monomers for Nucleic Acids.
What are Nucleotides?
functions of proteins (6)
What are antibodies, enzymes, structural, chemical signals, transport, channels in plasma membranes?