Lipids
The building blocks of Lipids.
What are fatty acids?
The building blocks of Carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The building blocks of Nucleic Acids.
What are nucleotides?
The main characteristic of water that allows for all of its properties
What is polarity?
Function of Lipids.
What is long-term energy storage/provide insulation/form cell membranes?
Function of Carbohydrates.
What is quick energy?
The bond between amino acids to create a polypeptide
What are Peptide bonds
Parts that make up a nucleotide
sugar, phosphate and nitrogenous base
The reason why some bugs can walk on water.
What is surface tension?
Examples of Lipids.
What are fats/oils/waxes/steroids?
Examples of Carbohydrates.
What are sugar/starch/glucose/glycogen/cellulose?
The four stages of protein synthesis
Examples of Nucleotides.
What are DNA and RNA?
Water is attracted to itself.
What is cohesion?
The elements that make up Lipids.
The elements that make up Carbohydrates.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen?
The elements that make up proteins.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes sulfur?
The elements that make up Nucleic Acids.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus?
Water can stick to other things.
What is adhesion?
The difference between saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids.
What is a double bond?
The cell wall of plants is made out of this.
What is cellulose?
Describe Tertiary structure
Nonpolar R groups fold in
Polar R groups fold out
Charged R groups bond to create bridges on the outside of the protein
Cysteines bond to create disulfide bridges on the outside
The names of the n-bases in DNA.
What are cytosine (C), thymine (T), adenine (A), and guanine (G).
The reason why sweat cools people off.
What is evaporative cooling?