Composition of Matter
This subatomic particle has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
This subatomic particle is responsible for chemical bonding.
What are electrons?
This inorganic molecule accounts for more than two-thirds of the bodies weight.
What is water?
The most important carbohydrate used by body cells to create energy.
What is glucose?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The basic building block of matter.
What is an atom?
This allows water molecules to bond with each other.
What are Hydrogen bonds?
NaCl is an example of this type of inorganic molecule, which are required by the human body as electrolytes.
What is salt?
These monomers are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
This is a type of element that has a different number of neutrons but does not change the proton count.
What are isotopes?
In a particular electrically neutral atom of carbon, the electron number is 6. This is the number of protons.
What is six?
This charged molecule is formed when an atom gains or loses an electron.
What is an ion?
This kind of inorganic molecule has a low pH and is considered a proton donor.
What is an acid?
The elements found in ALL biomolecules (macromolecules).
What is C, H, O?
This protein can be affected by pH and temperature.
What is an enzyme?
These are formed when two or more different atoms are chemically joined together.
What are compounds?
This type of bond is created when electrons between two molecules are unequally shared due to a difference in electronegativity.
What is a polar covalent bond?
These chemicals are in the body and help to maintain pH level by taking up excess hydrogen or hydroxyl ions.
What are buffers?
This type of reaction is used to combine molecules such as when creating disaccharides or protein molecules by the removal of water.
What is a dehydration reaction?
We do this to neutralize a chemical that has become too basic.
What is release H+?
Carbon has an atomic weight of 12.011, where as the mass number is 12. Sometimes, it can be found as Carbon-12 and sometimes it can be found as Carbon-14. These two molecules are considered isotopes, which result from a differing number of these.
What are neutrons?
This anabolic type of reaction occurs when two or more atoms or molecules combine to form a larger, more complex molecule.
What is a synthesis reaction?
This type of reaction occurs when acids and bases are mixed and ultimately create water and a salt.
What is a exchange reaction?
This structural level of proteins is in charge of creating a spiral or sheet structures that form in the chain.
What is secondary structure?
The difference between polymers and a monomers.
What is
- monomers: single building blocks of macromolecules
- polymers: chainlike molecules made up of monomers