Exploring Life
Chemistry of Life
Water
Organic Compounds
Macromolecules
100
The smallest unit of matter that can carry out all the processes of life.
What is Cell
100
The nucleus of an atom is made up of these particles.
What is Protons and Neutrons
100
Bonds that hold a (one) water molecule together.
What is Polar Covalent
100
Carbon can make this many bonds
What is Four
100
Property of lipids resulting from nonpolar covalent bonds
What is hydrophobic
200
The hereditary material in living things.
What is DNA
200
The number of neutrons in Fluorine (atomic number 9, atomic mass 19)
What is 10
200
Bonds between water molecules that leads to water's many emergent properties.
What is Hydrogen Bonds
200
Name the functional group containing nitrogen found in proteins
What is amine
200
Proteins are made up of these monomers.
What is Amino Acids
300
The approach of reducing complex systems to their individual parts.
What is Reductionism
300
The number of valence electrons in oxygen.
6
300
If a solution has a pH of 2, you would find hydrogen ions in every 1 out of ____ molecules.
What is 100
300
A macromolecule where you could find phosphate?
What is nucleic acid or phosphoLIPID
300
A reaction that synthesizes polymers.
What is Dehydration Reactions.
400
The three domains of life
What is Bacteria, Archae, and Eukarya
400
Type of covalent bond in which electrons are not shared equally.
What is Polar Covalent Bond
400
The ability of water to "stick" to itself
What is cohesion
400
Draw the functional group carboxyl
What is COOH
400
The reason that you can breakdown starch and not cellulose
What is beta glucose in cellulose, bacteria in rumen, 4 stomach ungulates
500
A type of feedback that reverses the direction of an event
What is negative feedback
500
Atoms of same element that have different numbers of neutrons. Some can be radioactive.
What is Isotopes.
500
Why does ice float in liquid water?
What is Hydrogen bonding causes ice to be less dense than liquid water.
500
The difference between ketoses and aldoses.
What is the c=o bond in ketones is within the carbon skeleton; aldehydes are at the end
500
An ester linkage is found in what macromolecule?
What is Lipid
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