Biomolecules
A chain of monomers
What is a polymer?
Enzymes ________ reactions
What is catalyze?
What are 3 subatomic particles
What is protons, electrons, and neutrons.
A species better suited for its environment is more likely to survive than one that isn't.
What is Natural Selection?
What scale is used to measure the concentration of ions.
What is a pH scale
The sequence of amino acids bonded by peptide bonds that forms a chain
What is the primary structure of protein?
Enzymes receive substrates where
What is the active site
What are atoms?
What is the building blocks of matter.
Three factors that affect natural selection.
What is competition, overpopulation, and variations
A temporary change that causes a DNA strand to insert the wrong base
What is a tautomeric shift?
The breakdown of a polymer due to its reaction with water.
What is hydrolysis?
Describe the difference between a synthesis reaction and hydrolysis reaction.
What is one builds bonds two substrates into one and one breaks one substrate into two?
Ionic bonds are typically between a metal and a nonmetal, while covalent bonds are between what
What is a nonmetal and a nonmetal
The random phenomena that leads to new traits in offspring.
What is a mutation
The method of dating that utilizes half lifes
What is radiometric dating?
There are __ different forms of amino acids
What is 20?
What is the activation energy.
What are the most important elements for life to occur
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
Genetically similar organisms that vary in appearance but can produce offspring.
What is species
What is important in the making of new proteins
What is DNA and RNA
List all 4 biomolecules
what is protein, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids
The loss of an enzymes function due to temp. change, pH change, and salt concentration.
What is denaturation
Why is polarity important?
What is because it can determine what molecules can bond with each other,
Evolution is impossible without
The reason unsaturated fats are fluid at room temperature is because
What is a kink in their structure that prevents tight packing