Experimental Design
The variable of an experiment that changes due to a varying factor.
What is the dependent variable?
The property of water that allows water to stick to other water molecules.
What is cohesion?
The 4 macromolecules.
What is Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, and Proteins?
Enzymes are an example of this macromolecule.
What is a protein?
The difference between saturated and unsaturated fats' chemical make up.
What is unsaturated has bent carbon backbones and saturated have straight carbon backbones?
The variable of an experiment that scientists control.
What is the independent variable?
The property of water that allows ice to float on liquid water.
What is low density in a solid state?
The long string of carbons necessary to make macromolecules.
What is a carbon backbone?
The reactants of a chemical reactions with enzymes.
What are substrates?
The 4 main elements found in life.
Carbon
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
The group of an experiment that receive varying factors to compare data and outcomes.
What is an experimental group?
The outcome of cohesion that causes a film to develop on the top of bodies of water.
What is surface tension?
The monomer and polymer of Nucleic Acids.
The 3 different environmental factors that affect enzyme activity.
What is temperature, pH, and salt concentration?
The outer electrons of an atom.
What are valence electrons.
The group of an experiment that generally reflects the normal factors in real scenarios.
What is a control group?
What are the two different bonds used in water molecules?
Covalent bonds (atom to atom)
Hydrogen bonds (molecule to molecule)
The polymer of a protein.
What is a polypeptide?
The part of an enzyme where another molecule binds.
What is an active site?
What energy is released as.
What is heat?
The type of graph used when showing a change over time.
What is a line graph?
The property of water that allows water to defy gravity and reach the top of plants.
What is capillary action?
The monomer of a Lipid.
What is a triglyceride?
All enzyme names end with these 3 letters.
What is "-ase"?
The function of carbohydrates.
What is the main source of energy?