Carbohydrates
Glucose and fructose are this type of carbohydrate
What is a Monosaccharide?
The chemical trait shared by all lipids
What is Hydrophobic or nonpolar?
A polymer of nucleotides
What is Nucleic acid / DNA / RNA
Proteins are made from many of these small molecules linked together
What is Amino acids?
Organelles that perform cellular respiration
What is Mitochondria?
The number of carbon atoms in ribose
What is Five?
The molecule that can attach to 1, 2, or 3 fatty acids
What is Glycerol?
The molecular group found in every nucleotide
What is Phosphate?
The level of structure that describes the sequence of subunits in the straight chain
What is primary?
An organism that produces its own food
What is an autotroph?
The number of sugar monomers in sucrose
What is Two?
A glyceride with no double or triple bonds
Saturated (fat)
An example of an energy-carrier made of nucleotides
What is ATP, ADP, or cAMP?
Secondary structure takes on one of these two forms
What is a-Helix or b-Sheet
A chemical message secreted by the endocrine system
What is a hormone?
A reaction that is needed to break the bond between glucose and fructose
The type of lipid that makes up cell membranes
What is a Phospholipid?
A, T, C, G, or U
What is a Nitrogenous base?
These are the bonds between amino acids
Peptide bonds
A two-word phrase describing the theory of evolution
What is Natural Selection
The large carbohydrates found in arthropod shells
What is Chitin?
A lipid with four carbon rings
What is Sterol?
The two coenzymes made with nucleotides
What is NAD+ and FAD
Functions of proteins include (just list one)
What is Antibodies, Enzymes, hormones, structural support or transport/storage?
Molecules on the outside of cells used for identification
What is Antigens?