The 4 most dominant elements that make up living matter and are essential to living things.
What are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen?
The smallest unit of matter that is indivisible.
The type of bond that exhibits a transfer of electrons.
What is an ionic bond?
Water's attraction to unlike substances.
What is adhesion?
The type of biological macromolecule that contains a phosphate group bound to a pentose and a nitrogenous base.
What is a nucleic acid?
The sum of the number of protons and the number of neutrons for a specific element.
What is mass number?
When two or more different elements are bound together chemically.
What is a compound?
A type of bond between two or more nonmetals where the distribution of electronegativity is equal.
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
Water's attraction to like substances (water)
What is cohesion?
A chain of carbons such as a steroid.
What are lipids?
In a stable isotope of an element, the number of protons and electrons would both be equal to this value.
What is the atomic number?
Can be described as two or more atoms bound together, either of the same element or different.
What is a molecule?
A substance must exhibit this in order to dissolve in water.
What is polarity?
This graph is representative of this property of water that is considered "high" compared to other substances.
What is heat capacity?
The hydrophilic portion of a lipid.
What is a glycerol head?
or
What is glycerol?
What is an ion?
The type of bond that holds different water molecules together.
What is a hydrogen bond?
Atoms of the same element that have a differing number of neutrons that impacts the mass.
What are isotopes?
These types of bonds are represented by the dotted lines in this image.
A ring that contains 6 carbon atoms found in carbohydrates.
What is a hexacarbon?
This classification of elements have full outer (valence) electron shells and are inert / unreactive.
What are the noble gases?
The type of bond that exists within water molecules.
What is a covalent bond?
All forms of organic matter contain these three elements.
What are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?
The strong attraction between water molecules results in water having this unique property that is beneficial to items or organisms with low masses.
What is surface tension?
A chain of linked amino acids form a polymer called this.
What is a polypeptide?