General Biochemistry
This term is used to describe the subunits or building blocks of polymers.
What is monomer?
This molecule is the monomer of carbohydrates.
These are the more common names for triglycerides.
What are fats and oils?
This is the monomer of proteins.
What is amino acid?
This term describes the shape that the DNA molecule takes.
What is helix?
(also accept double helix)
This element, along with hydrogen, is always found in organic molecules.
What is carbon?
This is the main function of carbohydrates in your body. They serve as a short term source of _______.
What is energy?
Saturated fatty acids are typically from animal sources and can be found in this state of matter at room temperature.
What is solid?
In the human body, there are this many essential amino acids.
What is 20?
This nucleotide is found in RNA but not DNA.
What is uracil?
These are the four essential macromolecules found in the cells of living things.
What are proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids?
An athlete who is about to run a marathon should consume something like pasta, which contains this type of carbohydrate that provides slow & steady source of energy over a longer period of time.
What is a complex carbohydrate?
(will accept starch as well)
Lipids have many functions in our bodies, one of which is to act as a phospholipid, an important structural component of this cell part.
What is the cell membrane?
A chain of amino acids bonded together is referred to as this type of polymer.
What is polypeptide?
This is the name of the sugar that can be found in DNA's sugar+phosphate backbone.
What is deoxyribose?
This aspect of a molecule will play a large role in determining its function.
What is shape or structure?
In plant and bacteria, carbohydrates can function as _________ material, such as cellulose in plant cell walls and peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls.
These are the subunits of a triglyceride. Unlike carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids, triglycerides have two distinctly different subunits.
What are glycerol and fatty acid chains?
Before it becomes a protein, this process must occur to the polypeptide.
What is folding?
In DNA, nitrogen-containing bases within the nucleotides always pair up in this way.
What is A with T and C with G?
Amino acids being joined together via peptide bonds to become a polypeptide requires this type of chemical reaction.
What is dehydration or dehydration synthesis?
This molecule, made from just two simple sugars bonded together, is the simplest kind of carbohydrate.
What is a disaccharide?
Trans fatty acids are unsaturated fatty acids that have been given additional atoms of this element in order to break double bonds.
What is hydrogen?
A change in the shape or form of a protein will impact its functionality. This term is used to describe a protein that has had its shape changed.
What is denatured?
This special nucleotide is able to provide energy to the cell due to a high-energy bond between phosphate groups.