Macromolecules
Small building blocks that create polymers
What are monomers?
All life on Earth is based on this element
What is carbon?
This is responsible for surface tension
What is cohesion?
This protein carries out chemical reactions
What is enzymes?
Adenine pairs with this in RNA
What is uracil?
The number of functional groups
Molecules made from smaller subunits are
What is macromolecules?
This is the definition of specific heat capacity
What is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a substance?
Name an environmental factor that can denature a protein
What is change in temperature/change in pH?
The sugar bonded in DNA
What is deoxyribose?
The four macromolecules
What is carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids?
Carbon can form this amount of covalent bonds
What is 4?
Polarity influences this property of water
What is adhesion?
This level of protein structure includes a 3D shape resulting from...
What is interactions between R-groups?
DNA runs in _____ directions from each other and is ______
What is opposite and antiparallel?
Two monomers bond in this reaction
What is dehydration?
Carbon is most commonly formed with these 3 elements
What is hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
TRUE OR FALSE: CAPILLARY ACTION OCCURS WHEN COHESION IS GREATER THAN ADHESION
FALSE, CAPILLARY ACTION OCCURS WHEN ADHESION IS GREATER THAN COHESION
This determines the function of a protein
What is shape?
True or false: a phosphate group is added to the 3' carbon of the sugar
False, it is added to the 5'
This functional group acts as a base
What is amino group?
Name all 6 essential elements of life
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur?
This substance releases hydrogen ions when dissolved in water
The number of different R-groups
What is 20?
A nucleotide is made of
What is a nitrogenous base, pentose sugar, and one or more phosphate groups?