Properties of Water
Water's special properties and importance in biological organisms is due this characteristic of water molecules. (Hint: partial charge)
What is POLARITY?
The three subatomic particles that have respective charge values of +1, 0 and -1.
What are PROTONS, NEUTRONS and ELECTRONS?
The general term for monomers of carbohydrate molecules.
What is MONOSACCHARIDE?
This group on an amino acid determines the amino acid's general properties and behaviors.
What is the R GROUP?
What is ribonucleic acid?
The INTERmolecular bond experienced BETWEEN water molecules is called this.
What is a HYDROGEN BOND?
The number of bonds that a Carbon atom generally makes.
What is 4?
The two types of molecules that make up a triglyceride.
What are a GLYCEROL and FATTY ACID CHAIN?
The four levels of protein structure are called these (in order).
What are PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY and QUATENARY?
The bond found between the 3' hydroxyl and 5' phosphate groups on a strand of DNA (aka the bonds that make up the sugar-phosphate backbone).
What is a PHOSPHODIESTER BOND?
This property allows water to not easily change temperature regardless of a significant gain or loss in energy.
What is SPECIFIC HEAT/HIGH SPECIFIC HEAT/HEAT CAPACITY?
Typically, this type of reaction is common in Biology when CREATING macromolecules or large molecular structures.
What is DEHYDRATION SYNTHESIS?
What is GLUCOSE & FRUCTOSE?
What are AMINO and CARBOXYL?
This is the type of bond that connects two molecules of DNA to each other via their nitrogenous bases.
What is a HYDROGEN BOND?
This process allows water to travel up the roots of plants and is due to a combination of both cohesion and adhesion.
What is CAPILLARY ACTION?
This type of bond describes the exchange of electrons from one atom to another, creating a positively charged atom and a negatively charged atom that attract one another.
(Bonus points: What are the technical names for the two new atoms? 100 points.)
What is an IONIC BOND?
The storage carbohydrate most commonly found in plants is called this.
What is STARCH?
This level of structure can include disulfide bridges (the only covalent bond found in this level of structure).
What is TERTIARY?
A strand of DNA reads 5' - AGGCTTCTA - 3'. The alternate strand (in the correct direction) will read this.
What is 3' - TCCGAAGAT - 5'?
This is the pH of pure water. Anything below it is acidic, anything above to 14 is basic.
This describes a Carbon whose four bonds are occupied by distinctly different groups.
What is CHIRALITY/CHIRAL?
The covalent bonds between monosaccharides are called this.
What is a GLYCOSIDIC LINKAGE or BOND?
Sickle Cell Anemia occurs when there is a change in a single amino acid on the polypeptide chain. This is a mutation associated with this level of protein structure.
What is PRIMARY?
Adenine and Guanine are classified as these, while Cytosine, Thymine and Uracil are classified as these others. (name both classifications with the correct molecules)
What are PURINES and PYRIMIDINES (respectively)?