Carbohydrates
The name for the basic structural unit of carbohydrates.
What is a monosaccharide?
This type of lipid is a major component of the bilayer that separates the cell interior from the surrounding environment.
What is a phospholipid?
The basic building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The building block of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
When a protein loses its tertiary structure.
What is denaturation?
A type of covalent bond that joins a carbohydrate molecule to another group.
What is a glycosidic bond/linkage?
Unsaturated fats tend to be liquids at room temperature because they include one or more of this type of bond.
What is a double bond?
A covalent bond linking two amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
The overall charge of a DNA molecule.
What is negative?
The amino acid with a thiol side group.
What is cysteine?
The number of carbon atoms in a glucose molecule.
What is six?
This is a steroid responsible for mediating membrane fluidity.
What is cholesterol?
Alpha-helices and Beta-pleated sheets are examples of this type of protein structure.
What is secondary structure?
A covalent bond that forms between nucleotides.
What is a phosphodiester bond?
The name of the technique used to detect the presence and quantity of DNA in a sample.
What is a Southern Blot?
D-glucose and L-glucose are mirror images of each other, thus they are this type of molecule.
Special cells in animals that store fat.
What are adipocytes?
The one amino acid that is optically inactive.
What is glycine?
The type of bond between the two bases that pair (C-G, A-T).
What is a hydrogen bond?
This amino acid has the one letter abbreviation "N".
What is asparagine?
Cellulose is a chain of glucose molecules linked by this type of bond.
What is a Beta-1,4-glycosidic bond/linkage?
These are the 4 fat-soluble vitamins.
What are Vitamins A, D, E, and K?
The side product of peptide bond formation.
What is H20?
The number of rings in the structure of a purine.
What is two?
What is a kinase?