Water
Organic Molecules
Proteins
Chemistry
Nucleic Acids
100
Rivers and lakes don't freeze completely during winter due to this specific property of water.
What is ice is less dense than water?
100
Non-polar, stable, hydrophobic, organic compounds with very little attraction between molecules, usually gases at room temperature. They can be saturated or unsaturated.
What are hydrocarbons?
100
a covalent bond formed between the carboxyl group of one amino acid and the anime group of another.
What is a peptide bond?
100
What are geometric isomers?
100
Adenine and guanine
What are purines?
200
This property of water allows it to keep the Earth's temperature and climate relatively stable.
What is Specific heat?
200
The monomer of a polypeptide
What are amino acids?
200
The R group, or variable group
What makes one amino acid different from another?
200
glucose and fructose, for example.
What are structural isomers?
200
The term to describe the directionality of the two sides of a DNA molecule: with the 5' end of one strand lining up with the 3' end of the other
What is antiparallel ?
300
The ability of water molecules to travel up the stems of plans against gravity is an example of
What is adhesion?
300
The name of the functional group COOH
What is organic acid/ carboxylic acid group?
300
What is creation of a dipeptide/creation of a peptide bond/dehydration synthesis?
300
The pH when the hydroxide ion concentration in a body of water is 10-10
What is 4?
300
a nucleotide containing a phosphate, ribose, and nitrogenous base
What is an RNA nucleotide/ribonucleotide?
400
One of the reasons why salt dissolves in water is that
What is water is polar and acts as a universal solvent?
400
these building blocks have the empirical formula CH2O
What is a monosaccharide?
400
this term is used for when a change occurs in a protein's three dimensional shape that causes the protein to no longer function
what is denaturation?
400
C,N,O,H,S are found in this class of biomolecules
What are the elements that make up proteins?
400
The percent of thymine in a DNA molecule containing 20% guanine.
What is 30%?
500
Interactions that are weak by themselves, but when they occur among many molecules of water, they allow it to stay liquid at room temperature.
What are hydrogen bonds?
500
A macromolecule that has a sugar, nitrogenous base and a phosphate. It acts as a building block for DNA and RNA.
What are nucleotides?
500
This type of interaction may occur between nonpolar R groups in the amino acid chain.
What are hydrophobic interactions?
500
A chemical reaction that allows for monomers to polymerize.
What is Condensation-Dehydration/synthesis reaction?
500
The complementary strand for the DNA sequence 5'-ATAGCTA-3'
What is 3'-TATCGAT-5'?