Macro-molecules
What are the four macromolecules of life?
What is carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids?
What can energy do?
What is the ability to do work or cause change?
What does the atomic number of an element tell you about it?
What is the number of protons and electrons in that atom?
What type of bond holds the oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms together?
What is covalent bond?
What is the scale for the pH scale? (lowest number to the highest number)
What is 0-14?
What elements are found in all four of the macromolecules?
What is carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
What is the difference between exergonic reactions and endergonic reactions?
What is exergonic releases free energy and endergonic absorbs free energy?
How many electrons does the 3rd energy level of an atom hold?
What is 18 electrons?
Why does ice float in water, but not in vegetable oil?
What is ice is less dense than water, but more dense than vegetable oil?
What number is neutral on the pH scale?
What is 7?
How are monomers and polymers related to each other?
What is monomers bind together to create a larger molecule called a polymer?
What do enzymes act as, and what part of the reaction do they lower?
What is a catalyst? What is the activation energy?
What type of bond involves the two atoms sharing the electrons between them?
What is a covalent bond?
What two properties of water allow for Capillary Action to take place and plants to obtain water from their roots to their leaves?
What part of the pH scale is acidic?
What is 0-6?
What bond is formed between two monosaccharides?
What is a glycosidic bond?
What is the difference between a coenzyme and an inhibitor?
How do you find the number of neutrons in an atom?
What is subtracting the number of protons/atomic number from the atomic mass?
Why is water known as the universal solvent?
What is it can dissolve many substances due to its polarity?
Why is gastric acid so acidic?
What is to break down food/gain energy?
What are two differences between a saturated fat and an unsaturated fat in terms of structure?
What is saturated fat has only single bonds and is surrounded by hydrogens, and unsaturated fat contains a double bond and has less hydrogens?
Describe the Lock and Key model.
What is only the right size key (substrate) can fit into the key hole (active site) of the lock (enzyme)?
Using the periodic table, find Nitrogen and determine the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons of the atom.
What is 7 protons, 7 electrons, and 7 neutrons?
What property of water helps to regulate the Earth's temperature?
What is high specific heat?
How much more acidic is the pH of 3 than the pH of 5?
What is 100 X?