Organic Compounds
Defined as a chemical compound that contains carbon atoms usually bonded to at least one hydrogen atom.
What is an organic compound?
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A compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms.
What is a hydrocarbon?
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An atom or a group of atoms that determine the function and properties of the compound.
What are functional groups?
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A molecule made up of many of the same small organic molecules.
What is a polymer?
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A large organic molecules in any living organism.
What is a biological molecule?
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A chemical bond formed by sharing one or more pairs of electrons between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
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Compounds that have the same molecular formula but different structural arrangements.
What are isomers?
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Formula of the hydroxyl group.
What is -OH?
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Small organic molecules that make up the long chains of a polymer.
What are monomers?
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A biological polymers that is made up of amino acid monomers.
What is a protein?
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An atom that is unique because it can easily combine with other atoms and form millions of compounds.
What are carbon atoms?
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A hydrocarbon that contains at least one double bond.
What is alkene?
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Consists of a carbon atom with a single bond to a hydroxyl group and a double bond to an oxygen atom.
What is a carboxyl group?
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Polymers that are made in labs.
What are synthetic polymers?
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A set of instructions, passed from one generation to the next by genes, that defines how biological processes will occur and determines physical characteristics.
What is genetic information?
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The Forms of Pure Carbon
What is graphite, diamonds, fullerene, and amorphous carbon?
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A hydrocarbon that contains one or more double or triple bonds.
What are unsaturated hydrocarbons?
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Formula of ethanoic acid
What is CH3COOH?
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Process in which synthetic polymers are made.
What is polymerization?
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A carbon compound that contains the two functional groups, amino and carboxyl.
What is an amino acid?
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Carbon often bonds with four hydrogen atoms and forms a stable compound.
What is bonding with carbon?
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An organic compound in which a carbon atom is bonded to an atom, or group of atoms, other than hydrogen.
What is a substituted hydrocarbon?
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Contains group 17 halogens-fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine.
What is the halide group?
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The breaking of double bonds in ethylene molecules, and the formation of long chains of ethylene molecules.
What is the formation of a polymer?
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Polymers that contains hundreds of amino acids linked together in a chain.
What are proteins?
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